mailbag
- noun
- /ˈmeɪlˌbæɡ/
- Lucky coolly closes his mailbag and walks out of the salon.
- stuffed mailbag
- carrying a mailbag
It's under HMP and IT I'm I'm both sort of fucking sewing mailbags, doing menial tasks and clean.
- It's under HMP and IT I'm I'm both sort of fucking sewing mailbags, doing menial tasks and clean.
Examples
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Two human feet protruded from the mailbag.
Fiction book (2000) -
He would have had to hike in a mile and a half from the road to get here, carrying the mailbags, since there was no path to this location that was wide enough to drive upon.
Fiction book (1991) -
I found these in my mailbag.
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And the bullet went through your mailbag, through all these letters, and into your...
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Now that the bloody legs were out, the policeman pulled again on the corners of the mailbag, and he felt the canvas surrender its cargo.
Fiction book (2000) -
He looked closely at the weave of the mailbag.
Fiction book (2000) -
Three days later, his headless corpse was discovered in a U.S. mailbag on the Costa Rican border. "Unburied?"
Fiction book (2000) -
At three-thirty, she was in the Democrat's office surrendering her files and the two mailbags.
Fiction book (1994) -
He was sleepy from eating, and the lids bobbed on his gold-slitted black eyes, but he gripped the sides of the large canvas mailbag like a miser clutching his purse.
Fiction book (2000) -
The postman delivered the mailbag filled with important documents this morning.
Synonyms
A large strong bag that carries mail for delivery
A large bag that a mail worker carries for letters and parcels
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Morphology
Etymology
Mailbag is a simple word made of mail ('letters and packages') and bag ('a large sack'), so it originally meant the strong bag used to carry the mail.