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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mailbag
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Indeed, my mailbag suggests part of the buyer bullying in recent years has been in the smaller multiple ranks.
▪ Slamming her feet down angrily, she made for the mailbags.
▪ The mailbag and telephone line brought many criticisms.
▪ There, wearing his mailbag and leaning over her desk, was Harold Newland, the postman.
▪ When their mailbags are bulging with outraged voters, they respond.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mailbag

mailbag \mail"bag`\, mail bag \mail bag\n. A bag in which mailed matter is conveyed or shipped under public authority.

Syn: mail pouch.

2. A letter carrier's shoulder bag; as, in England they call a mailbag a postbag.

Syn: postbag.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mailbag

also mail-bag, 1794, from mail (n.1) + bag (n.).

Wiktionary
mailbag

n. 1 A strong canvas bag used for the transportation of mail 2 A smaller bag, slung from the shoulders, used for the delivery of mail

WordNet
mailbag

  1. n. pouch used in the shipment of mail [syn: mail pouch]

  2. letter carrier's shoulder bag; "in England they call a mailbag a postbag" [syn: postbag]

Wikipedia
Mailbag

Mailbag is an Irish TV programme, presented by Arthur Murphy, which was broadcast on RTÉ One for a fourteen-year period, from 1982 to 1996.

The presentation, which became established in a half-hour Saturday-evening time slot, dealt with viewers letters concerning RTÉ TV programmes and broadcasting in general. Murphy continued using the Mailbag concept into the 2010s, his regular "E-mail Bag" segment on Today FM radio's The Ray D'Arcy Show airing each Thursday morning.

Usage examples of "mailbag".

The skip in which she had been found contained mailbags from the Canterbury area--had a fanatical religious order seized the children, perhaps a group of deranged high churchmen opposed to the liberal archepiscopal establishment?

None of the things that Dalziel was always telling him, such as he should eat more red meat, or that a university degree was what any convict could get between jerking off and sewing mailbags, seemed to apply.

Gil had ridden mail couriers on a space-available basis himself a time or two, and suspected that the lieutenant had probably been sleeping on top of the mailbags for a day or more in order to make it to Galcen tonight.

If he'd understood the ambassador correctly, randomized waves of ultrasound were traveling through the fluid to thwart any possible spy devices at customs, and a clever little computer program built into his cocoon made him look like a mailbag to any prying muon probes.

A ticket inspector coming on duty (Frank Evans, eighteen years' service with British Rail, already a national hero) had heard what seemed to be a cat hissing among the mailbags in the skip.