flash drive
noun
a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
flash drives
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pluralof flash drive.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But the BLS’s numbers include some items such as flash drives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The flash memory is nonvolatile, meaning it can be used to store data without power, and is found in devices such as flash drives and smartphones.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 27, 2026
So now a lot of private keys are not on flash drives but on exchanges that look a lot like stock brokerages at the point of service.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2024
These respected organizations use the money to purchase backpacks and grade-appropriate school essentials like notebooks, backpacks, calculators, pencils, crayons, calculators and flash drives.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
He had come to Hong Kong with a stack of flash drives containing classified NSA documents—documents that detailed a vast system of surveillance the American public had no idea existed.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
