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airdrop¹

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From air + drop.

noun airdrops · air-drop

  1. The act of delivering goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.
  2. The distribution of free tokens to help bootstrap a new cryptocurrency. But Facebook is also likely to carry out what’s known in cryptocurrency circles as an “air drop”, handing out small amounts of currency for free in an effort to kickstart the ecosystem.

verb airdrops · airdropping · airdropped · air-drop

  1. intransitive, transitive To deliver goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight. The Mako is powered by a sealed hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell, and includes a small element zero core. While not large enough to nullify the vehicle’s mass, the core can reduce it enough to be safely air-dropped.
  2. intransitive, transitive To distribute free tokens to help bootstrap a new cryptocurrency.
  3. Alternative letter-case form of AirDrop

AirDrop²

Where it comes from

By the analogy of an airdrop, in which items are delivered by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

proper noun

  1. A wireless service of Apple Inc. which can transfer files among supported Macintosh computers and iOS devices by means of close-range wireless communication.

verb AirDrops · AirDropping · AirDropped

  1. ditransitive, intransitive To transfer a file using AirDrop. “Another day another group of french^([sic]) teens trying to AirDrop me memes on the subway,” one woman tweeted. “In a crowd of teens and they keep trying to AirDrop me memes!!!” said another. One young Twitter user joked that she was going to a music festival last weekend “just to AirDrop.”

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noun act of dropping goods, equipment, or personnel from an aircraft

Españolentrega aérea, entrega por paracaídas, lanzamiento aéreo, lanzamiento en paracaídas
DeutschAbwurf, Fallschirmabwurf
Italianolancio con il paracadute

verb to drop goods, equipment, or personnel from an aircraft

Françaisparachuter, larguer par parachute
Italianolanciare con il paracadute, paracadutare

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@misc{airdrop_2026,
  title = {airdrop},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/airdrop},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}