thumb drive

British

noun

a thumb-sized portable computer hard drive and data storage device

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Only then did he provide the code to a safe that held a “hard-wired” crypto wallet stored on a thumb drive, Brownstone told the judge.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

Third, public reporting shows that in March 2019, a Chinese national named Yujing Zhang was arrested at Mar-a-Lago, carrying four cellphones and a computer thumb drive with computer malware on it.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2023

That new rule followed a penetration of the Defense Department’s most widely-used classified network, in 2008, by a virus loaded onto a thumb drive.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023

Justice said three troopers eventually found a thumb drive “and from that they found the video.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2023

I place everything in a folder on my thumb drive with all my other application materials for early acceptance.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

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