air-drop

1. 1.

   drop (an object) from the air; unload from a plane or helicopter

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Questions about air-drop

What does air-drop mean?

air-drop means "drop (an object) from the air; unload from a plane or helicopter".

How many syllables are in air-drop?

air-drop has 2 syllables and divides as air--drop under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is air-drop a common word?

air-drop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.