Definition of Dead drop

1. Noun. A drop used for the clandestine exchange of intelligence information. "A dead drop avoids the need for an intelligence officer and a spy to be present at the same time"

Generic synonyms: Drop

Definition of Dead drop

1. Noun. (context: espionage) a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dead Drop

dead axle
dead ball
dead bat
dead beat
dead bird
dead body
dead calm
dead cat bounce
dead center
dead centre
dead cert
dead code
dead donkey
dead donkeys
dead drop (current term)
dead duck
dead ducks
dead end
dead ends
dead fingers
dead first
dead foetus syndrome
dead furrow
dead giveaway
dead hand
dead hand of the past
dead heat
dead heats
dead horse

Literary usage of Dead drop

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Security Awareness in the 1980s: Featured Articles From Security Awareness (1992)
"Printed on the card were the same alphabetic symbols mentioned in the dead drop letter. Each was preceded by a name followed by a numeric symbol; ..."

2. Security Awareness in the 1990's: Feature Articles from the Security by Lynn F. Fischer (1998)
"Ames would leave a signal - such as a chalk mark on a mailbox to indicate to the Soviets that he would "load" a dead drop site. ..."

3. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"A "dead drop" of iron on iron with no rebound is not desirable. This, in its action, would be similar to a person taking two steps forward and one backward ..."

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