distro

plural distros

1. InternetcountablecomputingA set of software components, often open source, that have been packaged into a larger product or component for distribution to end-users.
2. InternetuncountableThe propagation of warez by distributing it to various sites.

   If anyone can help me with obtaining a source with an updated ftp list, either distro sites or non ratio sites, please contact me on ICQ […]

   1998, “Bubba Zenetti”, in Need Good FTP sites....Distro's and non-ratio sites-Please.

3. countableuncountableThe act of distributing printed material such as magazines or newspapers.

   I started writing my own zine, Thought Bombs, and organized a distro of other good, anarchist, anti-racist/abolitionist and feminist zines.

   2004, Anthony Rayson, “South Chicago ABC Zine distro”, in Fifth Estate, volume 364

plural distros

1. slangA mid-level drug dealer; A distributor.

   JASON: Hey Tommy, get over here! TOMMY (played by Joseph Sikora): I was just loading up my shipment, what’s up?. JASON: There’s someone I want you to meet. My guy right here, one of my highest earning distros in New York City, Tommy Egan. Tommy, Rodolfo Ramirez.

   2019 October 7, Courtney A. Kemp, Theo Travers, Andre J. Ferguson, 21:00 from the start, in Power(Like Father, Like Son), season 6, episode 7 (TV series), spoken by Jason Micic (Mike Dopud)

2. An organization that distributes printed material such as magazines or newspapers.

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   I went on to explain that we would continue to work with Mordam—who had recently merged with another indie distributor, Lumberjack, to become a much larger distro—for record store distribution but that "now we get the best of both worlds: the best music distributor in the country getting Punk Planet into record stores and the best newsstand distro getting us onto magazine racks."

   2025 April 30, Dan Sinker, Things Fall Apart: Punk Planet, Year 12