airdrop

noun

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

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. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of AirDrop.
4. (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.””

   “Cyber-flashing is not experienced as a less harmful or less damaging behaviour just because it happens digitally rather than on the street. […] For those who have been AirDropped in a public place, there is not even the comfort of knowing for certain who is guilty.”

name

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.