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mailbag

[ meyl-bag ]

noun

  1. a large bag used by mail carriers for carrying mail, usually equipped with a shoulder strap.
  2. a large bag or pouch used in transporting mail in bulk from general post offices to branch offices, from city to city, etc.


mailbag

/ ˈmeɪlˌbæɡ /

noun

  1. a large bag used for transporting or delivering mail


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mailbag1

First recorded in 1805–15; mail 1 + bag

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Example Sentences

If scientists could intercept these microscopic mailbags, they could offer new intel on what’s happening inside the body.

The steamship Columbia arrived in Charleston on the night of July 29, bearing mailbags loaded with pamphlets sent by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

From Time

In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke and Nate Silver open the mailbag to answer listeners’ questions about politics, polling and hot dogs.

In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we open up the mailbag to answer listener questions on polling, politics and anything else on people’s minds.

In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Nate Silver and Galen Druke open the mailbag and answer listeners’ questions about politics, polling and more.

The president riposted by laying claim to a bigger mailbag: “I get 40,000 emails a day,” he said.

I wiped her off the side of the car like a mailbag is clipped from the fast express by the catch-hook.

A fast train whiffled through the town and they baggage-hooked a mailbag off the car at about a hundred and fifty per.

Among other outrages, a mailbag was stolen from the York postboy, on the evening of February 22 in that year.

All of them therefore jumped up to greet the bearer of the mailbag, being greatly interested in news from the home folks.

But the policeman had a mailbag to deliver that night, and we had to push on.

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