deliveryman
Americannoun
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deliverymen
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Origin of deliveryman
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He took on various jobs, from construction to scavenging for waste and selling things at a street stall, before becoming a food deliveryman.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The other is a 39-year old French national who worked as a deliveryman and taxi driver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
But the movie is really about Murphy’s quietly anguished coal deliveryman, Bill, and his deepening crisis of conscience.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
The deliveryman, Michael White, was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of Sean Schellenger.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
Quincy toted those two boxes I seen the deliveryman bring.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
The bicycle remained an essential part of Rwandan life, from competitive city teams to weekday commuters to deliverymen pedaling tall cans of milk over cratered dirt roads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
The two boys, aged 2 and 4, romped through the labyrinth of La Soledad, under lines of drying laundry, past deliverymen pushing stacked handcarts and carpenters hammering away at tottering structures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2025
As Cho's script explains in the expository dump that is the opening episode, deliverymen are highly skilled fighters-for-hire, able to outrun or fend off marauding bands of hunters.
From Salon ● May 13, 2023
Usually, she said, deliverymen just say hello and hand her a receipt.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2020
There are two deliverymen watching her, either interested in catching her with the couch they’re moving into the building or else placing bets on if she’s a Decker or not.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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