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flash drive

or flashdrive

noun

, Computers.
  1. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.


flash drive

noun

  1. a pocket-sized portable computer hard drive and data storage device See also key drive pen drive thumb drive USB drive
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of flash drive1

First recorded in 1990–95
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Example Sentences

“Those who are in hiding or who are waiting to be evacuated come to me to help them back up their phone data on flash drives, to avoid being caught by the Taliban fighters who are checking phones at the checkpoints,” he says.

You don’t want any of these flash drives to die on you while storing important files.

Storage devices are getting smaller and higher-capacity each year, and nothing demonstrates that more than Kingston’s DataTraveler Max line of USB-C flash drives.

The county has already handed over flash drives with 11 gigabytes of data reflecting the activity logs of county voting machines.

If you want a device that’s good for transferring documents, photos, or other media from one device to another, or you just want to expand the storage space of your low-end laptop or tablet, then a mid-range flash drive may be your best bet.

(That immediately rendered the product's marketing shots inauthentic at best—think phone charger meets flash drive).

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