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单词 airdrop
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airdrop
airdrop n. (a) a delivery of supplies, troops, equipment, etc., from an aircraft in flight, esp. by parachute drop; (b) Surfing (usually as two words) an occasion or event in which surfer and board lose contact with the wave (either accidentally or intentionally) immediately after take-off on a steep face, free-falling through the air until regaining contact at the bottom of the wave.
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society > travel > air or space travel > parachuting > [noun] > dropping by parachute
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1943 Times 24 May 5/7 The contingent..remained together for several days until the first major air drop had been successfully made.
1958 N.Z. News 1 July 4/1 An airdrop of prefabricated sections for ten bivouacs..was made by the New Zealand Forest Service.
1988 Body Boarding Jan. 60 Wave faces at Newport are sometimes so vertical that the controlled air drop is the modus operandi.
1991 R. King Rad Boards xv. 60/2 On a really steep wave you could find yourself out of the water in a ‘free fall’, or ‘air drop’.
2001 U.S. News & World Rep. 22 Oct. 28/3 An airdrop of thousands of bright-yellow HDRs [sc. Humanitarian Daily Rations]..labeled ‘A Food Gift From the People of the United States of America’.
2015 Cape Argus (Nexis) 12 Dec. (Sports section) 27 Shane Dorian pulled off a horribly hairy air drop... As he starts to drop, his board disengages from the water..[and] he disengages with his board.
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airdrop v. transitive and intransitive to drop from an aircraft in flight, esp. by parachute.
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1948 Times 9 Jan. 5/5 I happened to be in Thebes at the time that General Scobie's manifesto was air-dropped.
1966 H. Harrison Plague from Space iii. 33 We had airdropped in during the night.
1992 News Jrnl. (Wilmington, Delaware) 18 Aug. a7/3 Do we airdrop guns and ammunition to permit the Muslims to defend themselves a little longer against a brutal ‘ethnic cleansing’?
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