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thumb drives

thumb drives is the plural of thumb drive.

Meaning of thumb drive

Noun

thumb drive (plural thumb drives)

  1. A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.
    • The other gadget that Ethan needs to end the Entity is a "poison pill" – a thumb drive, basically – which has been invented by his pal Luther (Ving Rhames).2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC
    Synonyms:
    data stick, disk on key, flash drive /flashdrive, jump drive /jumpdrive, key drive, memory drive, memory stick, pen drive /pendrive, USB, USB drive

Questions about thumb drives

What is thumb drives the plural of?
Thumb drives is the plural of thumb drive.

Words near thumb drives in the dictionary

  1. thumb a ride
  2. thumb blue
  3. thumb buster
  4. thumb down
  5. thumb drive
  6. thumb drives
  7. thumb fight
  8. thumb fights
  9. thumb index
  10. thumb indexes
  11. thumb knot

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