airdrop
airdrop Lexical Profile
airdrop Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An act of dropping supplies, equipment, or personnel by parachute from an aircraft.
"The humanitarian organization organized an emergency airdrop of food and medical supplies to the flood-stricken village."
A distribution of a cryptocurrency token or coin, usually for free, to numerous digital wallet addresses to promote a new virtual currency.
"Early adopters of the platform received a generous airdrop of governance tokens."
• verb
To drop supplies, equipment, or personnel by parachute from an aircraft.
"Rescue teams had to airdrop water and blankets to the hikers stranded on the mountain."
To transfer digital files wirelessly between mobile devices or computers using short-range communication technology, or to distribute cryptocurrency tokens directly to digital wallets.
"Could you airdrop those vacation photos to my phone before we leave?"