dead-drop

A form of dead drop — A location used to secretly transfer items between two people, without requiring them to meet.

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Meanings

verbdead-drop (third-person singular simple present dead-drops, present participle dead-dropping, simple past and past participle dead-dropped)

present singular third person dead-drops · participle present dead-dropping · participle past dead-dropped · past dead-dropped

  1. alternativeAlternative form 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
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    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
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APA

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MLA

“dead-drop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dead-drop. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dead-drop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dead-drop.

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