Dictionary

mailbag en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmeɪlˌbæɡ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From mail + bag.

Meanings

1. A strong canvas bag used for the transportation of mail.
   • The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously by pressing a large push-button located a suitable height for a man loaded with mailbags to contact it with his shoulder; after a time-lag of seven seconds the doors close automatically. 1959 December, “New TPOs for the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 581:
2. A smaller bag, slung from the shoulder, used by a mail carrier during the delivery of mail.
3. (broadly, figuratively) The correspondence received by a publishing entity such as a magazine or website.
   • In our mailbag this month, we've got no less than 12 letters from those of you who think that Jones should not have been benched.

Forms

Coordinates

postbox · mailbox · post office box · letter box

Hypernyms

sack · bag · poke

Relateds

mailwoman · mail carrier · mailman

Synonyms

postbag · mailsack