Usually means: Disagreement leading to relationship breakdown.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word fall out:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. fall out: Merriam-Webster
  2. fall out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fall out: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fall-out, fall-out: Wordnik
  5. fall out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fall-out, fall out: Wiktionary
  7. fall-out, fall out: Dictionary.com
  8. Fall Out (The Prisoner), Fall Out (song), The Fall-Out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. fall out: Rhymezone
  10. fall out: FreeDictionary.org
  11. fall out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. fall out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Fall Out: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. fall out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fall Out (The Police), fall out: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fall out: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fall out: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fall out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fall - out, fall out: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See fall_outs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fall out)

noun:  Synonym of falling out (“rift following a disagreement or quarrel”)
verb:  (literally) To come out of something by falling.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To cease to be on friendly terms.
verb:  (military, intransitive, literally) To leave one's place in the current formation of ranks in order to take one's place in a new formation.
verb:  (military, intransitive, figuratively) To leave one's current location to report for duty at a new location.
verb:  (dialect, intransitive) To pass out.
verb:  (dated) To turn out, happen.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, printing, of type) To fall off due to the quoins holding it in place having become wet and therefore loose.
verb:  (intransitive, Of a trapdoor or similar) To give way under someone.
verb:  (intransitive, Of the ground, floor, snow, etc., or figuratively, a worldview or foundation) To cause someone to slip and/or fall down.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To be enthusiastic about something; to laugh very hard.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To depart.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To collapse; to pass out from intoxication.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To be shocked by something.

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