English
stopout
Blend of stop + dropout.
Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn ‘to stop’
Old English stoppian ‘to stop’
Middle English stoppen ‘to stop’
English stop
Today it means
noun A student who leaves an academic institution but later returns to continue studying.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “stopout”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / stopout