Dropout or drop out may refer to: *

Dropping out Dropping out refers to leaving high school, college, university or another group for practical reasons, necessities, inability, apathy, or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves. Canada In Canada, most in ...

, prematurely leaving school, college or university

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Dropout'' (film), a 1970 Italian drama * "The Dropout", a 1970 episode of ''The Brady Bunch'' * ''The Dropout'' (podcast), 2019 true crime podcast ** '' The Dropout'', a 2022 American miniseries based on the podcast

Games

* drop out (cards), to fold, i.e. to concede the current hand and take no further part in it

Music

* "Drop Out" (song), by Lil Pump, 2019 * "Drop Out," a song by Rocket from the Crypt from the 1995 album ''

Scream, Dracula, Scream! ''Scream, Dracula, Scream!'' is an album by American punk rock band Rocket from the Crypt, released in 1995 by Interscope Records. It was the band's first major-label release. Music videos were filmed for the singles " On a Rope," " Born in ...

'' * "Drop Out", a song by Converge from the 2004 album '' You Fail Me'' * "Drop Out", music of ''Dance Dance Revolution Extreme'' * '' Drop Out with The Barracudas'', by The Barracudas, 1981 * The Dropouts, an early incarnation of Priestess (band)

Other

* Dropout (streaming service), an American subscription media service provider owned by a company of the same name * ''The Dropouts'', an American comic strip by Howard Post

Science and technology

* Dropout (astronomy), a radiation source whose radiation intensity falls off sharply *

Dropout (bicycle part) A fork end, fork-end, or forkend is a slot in a bicycle frame or bicycle fork where the axle of a bicycle wheel is attached. A dropout is a type of fork end that allows the rear wheel to be removed without first derailing the chain. Track bicyc ...

, a type of fork end * Dropout (communications), a momentary loss of signal *

Dropout (neural networks) Dropout and dilution (also called DropConnect) are regularization techniques for reducing overfitting in artificial neural networks by preventing complex co-adaptations on training data. They are an efficient way of performing model averaging wi ...