air drop
Supplies from above
An air drop is a delivery of supplies, equipment, or personnel from an aircraft in flight, typically by parachute: The humanitarian air drop brought food to the isolated village.
In cryptocurrency and tech contexts, an airdrop is a distribution of free tokens or digital assets to wallet holders, often as promotion: I got some coins from that airdrop last week.
As a verb, to air-drop is to deliver by either method.
- parachuteDrag-creating descent device
- free fallUnimpeded gravitational descent
- cargoTransported goods
- supplyFurnish or stock
- militaryArmed forces collectively
special ops · humanitarian · relief · care package · supply line · freefall · plane · aircraft · crate · package · crypto · token · NFT · wallet · giveaway · skydive · payload · chute
- Airborne Forcesparatrooper, airborne, static line, jumpmaster, airborne assault
- battle royalebattle royale, Fortnite, last man standing, winner, solo
- military tacticstactics, flanking, maneuver, ambush, battle formations
- deploymentmobilization, redeployment, rapid deployment, troop movement, troop surge
- flightflying, fly, flight, aviation, aircraft
- dropsraindrop, teardrop, dewdrop, eyedrops, gumdrop