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Definition of post al's - 2 dictionary results

post⋅al

  [pohs-tl]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
–noun
2. Informal. postal card.
—Idiom
3. go postal, Slang. to lose control or go crazy, esp. in a violent way.
Origin:
1835–45; post 3 + -al 1 ; def. 2 in reference to incidents of violence among postal workers in the early 1990s

Related forms:
post⋅al⋅ly, adverb
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Word Origin & History

postal 
"pertaining to the mail system," 1843, on model of Fr. postale (1836), from post (3). Noun meaning "state of irrational and violent anger" (usually in phrase going postal) attested by 1997, in ref. to a cluster of news-making workplace shootings in U.S. by what were commonly described as "disgruntled postal workers" (the cliche itself, though not the phrase, goes back to at least 1994).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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