expressman
Americannoun
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Origin of expressman
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For a man, it means signing a lease or something of that kind and perhaps hiring an expressman.
From Time Magazine Archive
The jury which hopes either to convict or to clear Messrs. Fall and Doheny before Christmas is composed of typically average U. S. citizens�a steamfitter, an artist, a cigar store clerk, an expressman, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only two people were admitted�an expressman and Munch's friend Pola Gauguin, son of the French painter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It was an expressman with the largest box Mr. Popper had ever seen.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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