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dead-drop en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dead drop.
    alt of dead drop
    • Last week, he 'dead-dropped' some pictures of the last dozen or so relatively new arrivals to Moscow and their assigned cars. 2011, Robert W. Swanson, The Russian Shoot, page 174:
    • The agent had to dead-drop the locker key to the PGU by some simple means, such as by taping it underneath a predesignated park bench, where it could be retrieved unobtrusively, usually by an officer under illegal cover. 2007, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Programmed to Kill:
    • Upon arriving in Setauket, Roe would dead-drop the information in a box in the middle of a field owned by Woodhull. Woodhull took the secrets to Brewster, who delivered them to Major Tallmadge. 2020, H. Keith Melton, Robert Wallace, Spy Sites of New York City, page 11:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dead-dropping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dead-drops Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
dead-dropped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dead-dropped Tense=Past lexicographic