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mailbag

mailbag

1 2.0
A large strong bag for carrying letters and packages
  • noun
  • /ˈmeɪlˌbæɡ/
translation icon : saco de correo
  • 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.

Examples

  • 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.

  • And the bullet went through your mailbag, through all these letters, and into your...

  • 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

mail pouch
vsmailbag
1 3.7

A large strong bag that carries mail for delivery

is a general sturdy bag for carrying letters and parcels, not only bulk use
postbag
vsmailbag
  • UK
3.9

A large bag that a mail worker carries for letters and parcels

is the American term for the same bag

How Big

crate
189 1.7
mailbag
1 2.0
satchel
28 2.5
pouch
72 2.1

Surface Forms

mailbag singular
mailbags plural

Morphology

mailbag = mail + bag (transparent) = mail + bag

Literal compound 'mail' + 'bag' referring to a bag used to carry mail; meaning follows directly from components.

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.