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expressman

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

noun

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


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of expressman

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


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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

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

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

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

These a pair of brawny expressmen rolled into the studio and carried thence to the storeroom which separated the bedroom and bath from the kitchen.

From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The Americans who were then living at Monterey sent several expressmen to their countrymen, warning them of their danger, as they felt that the Mexicans could, without a doubt, completely annihilate them.

From The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself by de Witt C. Peters

If you will watch expressmen at work you will notice that they roll boxes and trunks, holding them almost on end and tipping them just enough to turn them along their shortest axis.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

A few of the families who could secure willing expressmen possessed cooking stoves, but over 95 per cent of the refugees had to do their cooking on little camp fires made of brick or stone.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum

She had her opinion of expressmen, express companies, and especially of the firm of Hibbert & Jones.

From Mike Flannery On Duty and Off by Ellis Parker Butler

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