•to airdrop (deliver goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight) · to drop off (deliver, deposit or leave; allow passengers to alight) · to drop (mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation)
köken: From Old Danish tapæ, from Old Norse tapa (“to lose”), cognate with Norwegian Bokmål tape and Swedish tappa. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *tapōną, *tappōną, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p (“to sacrifice, lose”), cf. Latin damnum (“loss”) = Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial meat”).