dead drop

See also: dead-drop

English

Noun

dead drop (plural dead drops)

1. (espionage) A location used to secretly transfer items between two people, without requiring them to meet.

   Synonym: dubok

2. (espionage) The act of leaving an item in such a location for another person to collect.

Antonyms

• live drop

Translations

location used to pass items between two people in secret

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: dode brievenbus m
• Finnish: kylmä kätkö, postilaatikko (fi)
• French: boite aux lettres morte (fr) f
• German: toter Briefkasten (de) m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: тайни́к (ru) m (tajník) (e,g, шпио́нский)

Verb

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

1. To leave at a dead drop for someone else to retrieve.
   • 2006, Suzanne Francis, Protecting Your Room, Your Stuff & Your Secrets:

     Need to dead drop a note to a friend at school ?

   • 2016, Michael Reid Jr, Debt of Fear, →ISBN:

     He was concerned for her, wondering why she would dead drop items at their special spot. As he reached the tree he saw the spot they slept, the west side of the tree near a large root. Nestled under the root he found a manila envelope.

   • 2019, Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief:

     The matchbox he used to “dead drop” his film was serviceable but primitive. His Panasonic radio allowed him only to receive messages, not send any, and the messages could be deciphered only with the help of a code pad.

Anagrams

• drop dead, drop-dead