0 the act of bringing supplies or equipment by dropping them from aircraft:
1 to bring supplies or equipment somewhere by dropping them from aircraft:
Because of the storm, an attempt to air-drop the emergency supplies failed.
Food, water, and other supplies will be air-dropped into areas devastated by the mudslides.
A helicopter attempted to air-drop flyers over the city to advertise the concert.
No requests were made from the hospital except for extra drugs which were supplied by air drop.
There is such a thing as the air drop, and we have been foremost in the field in regard to air supply.
We are the nation which started the air drop, and we have more experience of it than anybody else.
This has been discussed with an eye both to an airlift or air drop and to a land corridor.
Next, there is the question of the air drop, if the roads become impassable.
