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airdropping

airdropping is the present participle and gerund of airdrop.

Meaning of airdrop

Verb

airdrop (third-person singular simple present airdrops, present participle airdropping, simple past and past participle airdropped)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To deliver goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.
    • The Mako is powered by a sealed hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell, and includes a small element zero core. While not large enough to nullify the vehicle’s mass, the core can reduce it enough to be safely air-dropped.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Vehicles: M35 Mako Codex entry
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To distribute free tokens to help bootstrap a new cryptocurrency.

See all 6 meanings of airdrop

Verb capitalized: AirDropping

AirDropping

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of AirDrop

Questions about airdropping

What is airdropping the present participle and gerund of?
Airdropping is the present participle and gerund of airdrop.
What part of speech is airdropping?
Airdropping is a verb.

Words near airdropping in the dictionary

  1. airdrop
  2. airdroppable
  3. airdropped
  4. airdropper
  5. airdroppers
  6. airdropping
  7. airdrops
  8. airdry
  9. airdrying
  10. Airds
  11. airduct

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Adapted from Wiktionary: airdropping (page history and authors); AirDropping (page history and authors); airdrop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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