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postman's knock en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable) A double knock at the door to indicate the delivery of letters or telegrams.
Whilst he was speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door, the double postman's knock of the telegraph boy.
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:
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(uncountable) Synonym of post office (“a party game involving the exchange of kisses”).
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post office