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mailbag

mailbag

4 3.5
A group of messages and questions from readers and listeners that a show answers
  • noun
  • /ˈmeɪlˌbæɡ/
  • Literature
translation icon : correspondencia
  • Every week, the newspaper features a section where they answer questions from their mailbag.
  • mailbag each week
  • Sunday mailbag
  • sampling from the mailbag

I'm going to answer some of your questions in the MK mailbag.

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Examples

  • Mike has an open mailbag and always welcomes questions and comments from readers.

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  • I'm glad you said something in the mailbag so I can gloat a little here at CSC as I did on my blog.

    Blog text (11)
  • In my own defense, I was well on my way to having this mailbag completed on schedule.

    Blog text (11)
  • And we just went to the mailbag for the first time since Thanksgiving.

  • Mailbag June 6: How do you think the team will do this year?

    Blog text (8)
  • So you've written answers to a mailbag of questions.

  • So, I've stolen a question from the mailbag.

    Blog text (8)
  • In WORLD Magazine, dated August 25, 2012, in the "Mailbag" on page 72, there is a letter from a man in Albuquerque, N.M.

    Blog text (19)
  • As promised, here's the rest of my first-ever all-Twitter mailbag.

    Blog text (3)
  • So today we open up the Deadline Dames mailbag, since I'm seriously scraping the barrel-bottom on blog post ideas and it's Friday.

    Blog text (8)

How Many Messages

backlog
36 3.8
mailbag
  • Literature
4 3.5
bundle
85 2.3

Surface Forms

mailbag singular
mailbags plural

Morphology

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

Metaphorical extension from a physical bag of mail to a collection of messages or questions; the container sense is clear but the idiomatic discourse meaning requires pragmatic inference.

Etymology

Mailbag is also used for a show's collection of listener or reader messages, like a host reaching into a real mailbag full of letters. That's why a 'mailbag' segment gathers many questions and comments.