thumb drive

noun

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

Example Sentences

The series’ MacGuffin is a magical thumb drive that, when plugged into a computer system, can seemingly do anything at all; possessing it, therefore, is an issue for both the good guys and the bad, into whose respective hands it goes in and out.

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Freddy Escobar stood on the sidewalk outside his former workplace waving a green thumb drive and a stack of papers that he said would clear his name.

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She handed Brooklyn a thumb drive.

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Ruffalo: All I know is that Marvel and Disney have probably a thousand hours of biometric information on me that someone could put in a thumb drive and probably upload to an AI-learning piece of software and just have all that.

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Now, of course all they need to do is stick it on a thumb drive, send it to us and allow me to do it on my own.

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