Usually means: Fall asleep slowly and peacefully.
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  1. drift off: Merriam-Webster
  2. drift off: Vocabulary.com
  3. drift off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. drift off: Wiktionary
  5. drift off: Dictionary.com
  6. drift off: Rhymezone
  7. drift off: FreeDictionary.org
  8. drift off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. drift off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. drift off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. drift off: Encyclopedia

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  1. drift off: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (drift off)

verb:  (intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drift, off.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To fall asleep slowly.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To lose concentration.

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