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flash drive

Trademark, ThumbDrive,
Trademark,
Or flashdrive

noun

Computers.
  1. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.



flash drive

noun

  1. a pocket-sized portable computer hard drive and data storage device See also key drive pen drive thumb drive USB drive

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of flash drive1

First recorded in 1990–95
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Example Sentences

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Unlike traditional means of protecting and storing wealth, like physical banks whose accounts are protected with sophisticated security measures, crypto holders carry immense, untraceable wealth by way of the passkeys to their crypto wallets, whether those are hosted online or stored within a flash drive.

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Last November, a former employee at a Chinese state agency was handed the death sentence after his USB work flash drive was allegedly seized by foreign spies and he became their "puppet", according to Chinese authorities.

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If you don’t want to haul a whole desktop PC with you, store copies of vital documents in the cloud or on a flash drive.

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He’d loaded it with a flash drive and a gold Oath Keepers medallion.

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He also told the Associated Press that sources “very close to Kim and Sean Combs” provided him with a “flash drive, documents and tapes” from Porter that he pieced together to create the memoir.

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