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AIR-DROP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does air-drop mean?
• AIR-DROP (verb)
The verb AIR-DROP has 1 sense:
1. drop (an object) from the air; unload from a plane or helicopter
Familiarity information: AIR-DROP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they air-drop ... he / she / it air-drops
Past simple: air-dropped
Past participle: air-dropped
-ing form: air-dropping
... he / she / it air-drops Past simple: air-dropped
Past participle: air-dropped
-ing form: air-dropping
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drop (an object) from the air; unload from a plane or helicopter
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "air-drop" is one way to...):
discharge; drop; drop off; put down; set down; unload (remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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