dropouts

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a person who leaves school, college, or university before completing a qualification, or a person who lives in an unusual way:

a high school/college dropout

He was a loner and a dropout.

in rugby, a way of starting play after it has stopped with a drop kick (= a kick in which the ball is dropped to the ground before being kicked):

Brooks kicked a 22 drop-out straight into touch.

The referee rightly awarded a 22-metre dropout to the home side.

a student who leaves school before finishing the course of instruction:

As a high school dropout he’ll never get a decent job.