mailman
Americannoun
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mailmen
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of mailman
Example Sentences
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Postal authorities have not identified the mailman in the video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Fred Melamed, as a mailman who narrates the story, seems desperate for a laugh, and doesn’t earn many.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
I was at the party, too — and not just to report this story, but because for the last 18 years, Ayala was my mailman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
All my countless calls to Social Security, with one question they could never answer, were resolved by the mailman today.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
I could see the mailbox from class when the mailman drove up at 11:47.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
It requires a network of processing centers, post offices, layers of management, truck fleets, and a huge force of mailmen and women to drop those credit card offers in your mailbox every afternoon.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2018
Still, it seems fair to say that Jody-ness is not equally distributed among the world’s milkmen and mailmen: There are Jodys, and there are Jodys.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2016
A night-shift postal employee, he heard mailmen were now scared to deliver mail on the street.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2016
While the Justice Department was presenting its case against Eller and preparing for the probable next trial, in San Diego, of Benjamin Sasway, 21, mailmen were delivering warning letters to another 33,000 non-registrants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last year Tokyo recorded about 5,000 complaints of dog bites from newsboys, mailmen, salesmen and bill collectors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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