memory stick

From Memory Stick, a Sony brand name.

memory stick (plural memory sticks)

1. (computing) One of a series of memory devices manufactured by the Sony Corporation ranging in size from a USB drive down to a flash card.
2. (computing) A portable solid-state electronic flash memory data storage device equipped with a USB (or similarly specified) plug for direct connection to a corresponding port; a USB drive, thumb drive or pen drive.
   • 2003, Jon Hall, Paul G. Sery, Red Hat Linux Fedora For Dummies, page 343,

     The first step to increasing your drive space is to add a new storage device. It can be a hard drive (IDE or SCSI), but also a USB or FireWire memory stick.

   • 2008, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, page 56,

     You might be wondering at this point what dark secrets I had locked away on my phone and memory sticks and email.

   • 2009, Steve Seguis, Windows PowerShell 2 For Dummies, unnumbered page,

     To do this, you can run a script on a computer periodically to check for any attached USB disk drives or memory sticks.

• (generic portable solid-state data storage device): data stick, pen drive, thumb drive, USB drive

• flashcard, flash card
• memory card