dead-drop

English

Verb

dead-drop (third-person singular simple present dead-drops, present participle dead-dropping, simple past and past participle dead-dropped)

1. Alternative form of dead drop
   • 2007, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Programmed to Kill:

     The agent had to dead-drop the locker key to the PGU by some simple means, such as by taping it underneath a predesignated park bench, where it could be retrieved unobtrusively, usually by an officer under illegal cover.

   • 2011, Robert W. Swanson, The Russian Shoot, page 174:

     Last week, he 'dead-dropped' some pictures of the last dozen or so relatively new arrivals to Moscow and their assigned cars.

   • 2020, H. Keith Melton, Robert Wallace, Spy Sites of New York City, page 11:

     Upon arriving in Setauket, Roe would dead-drop the information in a box in the middle of a field owned by Woodhull. Woodhull took the secrets to Brewster, who delivered them to Major Tallmadge.

Anagrams

• drop dead, drop-dead