expressman

American  

[ik-spres-muhn, -man] / ɪkˈsprɛs mən, -ˌmæn /

noun

expressmen plural

1. a person who makes collections or deliveries for an express company.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• expressmen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of expressman

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; express + man

Example Sentences

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expressman expressmen

On Saturday, Nubbins' father had worked in the kitchen, hanging ornaments on the fir branch and answering the side door every time the postman, the delivery boy or the expressman knocked.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a man, it means signing a lease or something of that kind and perhaps hiring an expressman.

From Time Magazine Archive

The three grocers, steamfitter, repair man, auto salesman, two clerks, merchant, expressman, broker and railroad agent who sat in judgment on Oilman Sinclair stayed out of the courtroom less than two hours.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Harry Truman stepped off the Presidential Special in Independence, Mo. an expressman called: "Hello, you old goat."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was an expressman with the largest box Mr. Popper had ever seen.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

I have patients with this complaint who are letter carriers, expressmen, even stevedores, and the like.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

All were making a frantic attempt to hire expressmen with any kind of vehicle that would move, and most of them were failing.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard

The notice, "This side up, &c.," did not avail with the different expressmen, who hesitated not to handle the box in the usual rough manner common to this class of men.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William

Owgooste was smacked from hour to hour, and wept upon the front stairs; the dressmaker called over the banisters for a hot flatiron; expressmen tramped up and down the stairway.

From McTeague by Norris, Frank

The last vessel for the season, the "Marengo," left the harbor for Detroit, taking on board our expressmen, who are to return by land.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe