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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

She handed Brooklyn a thumb drive.

From Literature

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Salon