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say it: ER-drahp
airdrop is a noun meaning "delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft". It carries one recorded sense.
delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft
“until then, front line troops will be supplied by airdrop”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for airdrop come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.