Distro

Quick meaning: Distro is a noun meaning (Internet slang, uncountable) The propagation of warez by distributing it to various sites.

Meaning

(Internet slang, uncountable) The propagation of warez by distributing it to various sites.

More Meanings

1. The act of distributing printed material such as magazines or newspapers.
2. An organization that distributes printed material such as magazines or newspapers.
3. (Internet, software, countable) A set of software components, often open source, that have been packaged into a larger product or component for distribution to end-users.
4. (slang) A mid-level drug dealer; A distributor.

Example Sentences

I started writing my own zine, Thought Bombs, and organized a distro of other good, anarchist, anti-racist/abolitionist and feminist zines.

If anyone can help me with obtaining a source with an updated ftp list, either distro sites or non ratio sites, please contact me on ICQ […]

JASON: Hey Tommy, get over here! TOMMY (played by Joseph Sikora): I was just loading up my shipment, what’s up?. JASON: There’s someone I want you to meet. My guy right here, one of my highest earning distros in New York City, Tommy Egan. Tommy, Rodolfo Ramirez.

I went on to explain that we would continue to work with Mordam—who had recently merged with another indie distributor, Lumberjack, to become a much larger distro—for record store distribution but that "now we get the best of both worlds: the best music distributor in the country getting Punk Planet into record stores and the best newsstand distro getting us onto magazine racks."

Word Forms

• distros

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include distribution, distributable, redist, distro-hopping, superdistribution, redistributable.

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