Usually means: Retreat to a safer position.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word drop back:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. drop back: Merriam-Webster
  2. drop back: Vocabulary.com
  3. drop-back: Wordnik
  4. drop-back, drop back: Wiktionary
  5. drop back: Dictionary.com
  6. drop back: Rhymezone
  7. drop back: FreeDictionary.org
  8. drop back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. drop back: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. drop back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drop back: Legal dictionary
  2. drop back: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drop back: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drop back: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drop back: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Football Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drop back)

verb:  (American football) Of a quarterback or other player in the backfield, to take a number of steps back from the line of scrimmage immediately after the snap or hike of the ball, to avoid defenders.
verb:  To move to a lower (or slower) position in a race or competition; to slow down so as to meet up with someone behind oneself
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, back.
noun:  (American football) The act by a player in the backfield of dropping back from the line of scrimmage after the hike of the ball.

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