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to airdrop

to airdrop

1 4.1
To drop supplies or equipment from an aircraft by parachute
  • verb
  • /ˈɛrˌdrɒp/
translation icon : lanzar por paracaídas
  • The military plans to airdrop medical supplies to the remote village after the earthquake.

Examples

  • We'll airdrop it in if we have to.

    Blog text (34)

  • We're gonna airdrop it with you guys into Azerbaijan.

    Red Sky (2014)

  • Why? Why is that a downfall as opposed to pickup trucks? Because you know you have a plane and you AirDrop and it's a pilot and the guy who's kicking in the back

  • And a friend, a judge with a Piper Cub, was preparing to airdrop a couple of carefully packaged reams of paper onto the peat bog.

    Academic text (2003)

  • They will airdrop food and water to the disaster-stricken areas using helicopters.

  • Our team needs to airdrop these crucial supplies to the frontline troops during the mission.

Synonyms

to deliver
vsto airdrop
933 1.0

To bring letters or goods to a person, a place

specifies dropping supplies from an aircraft usually by parachute
to air-drop
vsto airdrop
2 4.6

Drop supplies from a plane by parachute

has identical meaning but is written without a hyphen

How Precise

to land the plane
  • Specialized
8 3.5
to airdrop
1 4.1

Surface Forms

airdrop infinitive
airdropped past
airdropped past participle
airdropping present participle
airdrops third person singular

Morphology

airdrop = air + drop (transparent) = air + drop

The meaning is directly compositional: goods are dropped from the air.

Etymology

Airdrop as a verb is simply air + drop, meaning 'to drop by air'. So to airdrop something is to send it from a plane (often by parachute) down to people on the ground.