fall off

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to fall off (third-person singular simple present falls off, present participle falling off, simple past fell off, past participle fallen off)

  1. (transitive and intransitive) To become detached or to drop from.
    A button fell off my coat.
    • 1900, L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
      Dorothy stood up and found she was in her stocking-feet. For the Silver Shoes had fallen off in her flight through the air, and were lost forever in the desert.
  2. (intransitive) To diminish in size, value etc.
    Business always falls off in the winter.
    MC ___'s new album is wack - he's fallen off big-time.

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