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dead drop

noun

Definitions

  1. A location used to secretly transfer items between two people, without requiring them to…

    A location used to secretly transfer items between two people, without requiring them to meet.

  2. The act of leaving an item in such a location for another person to collect.

  3. To leave at a dead drop for someone else to retrieve.

    • Need to dead drop a note to a friend at school ?
    • He was concerned for her, wondering why she would dead drop items at their special spot. As he reached the tree he saw the spot they slept, the west side of the tree near a large root. Nestled under the root he found a manila envelope.
    • The matchbox he used to “dead drop” his film was serviceable but primitive. His Panasonic radio allowed him only to receive messages, not send any, and the messages could be deciphered only with the help of a code pad.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dead drop. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA