thumb drive
nounEtymology A trademark owned by Trek Technologies.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.
- The other gadget that Ethan needs to end the Entity is a "poison pill" – a thumb drive, basically – which has been invented by his pal Luther (Ving Rhames).2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC: