Working in I.T., I hear a lot of figurative terms for USB flash memory drives: thumb drive, jump drive, zip drive*, flash stick, and memory stick**.
My favorite term that I have heard, though, is ‘nerd stick.’ As I have mentioned before, my favorite nerd stick is the Victorinox USB Swiss Army Knife.
Both asterisked terms are erroneous:
* A Zip drive is a completely different (and antiquated) type of storage media manufactured by Iomega.
** A Memory Stick is Sony’s proprietary portable flash memory storage device.
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