deliveryman
Americannoun
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deliverymen
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Origin of deliveryman
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After the footage went public, a deliveryman was detained for questioning.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
For example, he might opt to pick up groceries ordered through the app Instacart to save on fees and tipping a deliveryman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Pham Phu Quy, a driver and deliveryman, was a teenager in Saigon in 1975, with a father who worked for the South Vietnamese government, and a mother who worked for the northern army.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025
The deliveryman, Michael White, was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of Sean Schellenger.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
"They are for Autumn, I mean Andrea, to wear to the prince's ball. It’s a lucky thing both girls wear the same shoe size. Ms. Zelda is downstairs now, getting the package from the deliveryman."
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
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
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
In its absence, people buy gallons of water from deliverymen like Wissam al-Talawi, who took the only job he could find to support his family.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
It was not uncommon to see deliverymen pushing crates of fruits and vegetables bound for restaurant kitchens up and down the streets, their trucks stranded blocks away.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
One morning two deliverymen carried a jukebox in the front door.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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