deliveryman

[dih-liv-uh-ree-man, -muhn]

noun

plural

deliverymen 

1. a person employed to make deliveries of merchandise to purchasers, usually by means of a truck.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deliveryman¹

First recorded in 1915–20; delivery + man

Example Sentences

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.

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There’s a proud skunk owner from Atlanta, a pizza deliveryman from San Bernardino and a bill collector from Denver given a bum steer while tracing a debt.

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In July, a newspaper deliveryman was killed by a brown bear in a residential area.

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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.

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But the movie is really about Murphy’s quietly anguished coal deliveryman, Bill, and his deepening crisis of conscience.

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