dropoff

dropoff
   to die
   It is used of dying from natural causes. The derivation is from the colloquial meaning, to sleep, and from the fate of a dead bird:
    The soo took the fever, the kye droppit off. (A. Armstrong, 1890)
    It's the dropping off the perches... Soon we shall all have gone. (N. Mitford, 1949)

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