"drop off the hooks" meaning in English

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      "form": "drops off the hooks",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropping off the hooks",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped off the hooks",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped off the hooks",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "drop off the hooks (third-person singular simple present drops off the hooks, present participle dropping off the hooks, simple past and past participle dropped off the hooks)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1921, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Great Pearl Secret",
          "text": "\"You'd do harm if you dared to,\" the woman said. \"You'd like to kill him. […] We don't want him to drop off the hooks. Not much!'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To die."
      ],
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          "humorous",
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        ],
        [
          "die",
          "die"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) To die."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bite the dust"
        },
        {
          "word": "buy the farm"
        },
        {
          "word": "kick the bucket"
        },
        {
          "word": "die"
        }
      ],
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        "colloquial",
        "euphemistic",
        "humorous",
        "idiomatic"
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  ],
  "word": "drop off the hooks"
}

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      "form": "drops off the hooks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropping off the hooks",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped off the hooks",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped off the hooks",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
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          "ref": "1921, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Great Pearl Secret",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To die."
      ],
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          "die",
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        "(idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) To die."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "bite the dust"
        },
        {
          "word": "buy the farm"
        },
        {
          "word": "kick the bucket"
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