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postage stamps

n. (postage stamp English)

Usage examples of "postage stamps".

He explained to me he was supposed to have good judgment, and I wanted him to make a stupid, dangerous, amateur investment in postage stamps, for God's sake.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

A pair of pretty legs, and you forget all about your gun and leave it on the table while you chase postage stamps to the floor.

Next to that was an irregularly shaped, awkwardly wrapped object covered with postage stamps that could only have been a cat.

It was made of glass, but he could see the soft blues and the inimitable warm brick reds of his Cape of Good Hope triangular postage stamps.

In her purse she had a small wad of dogeared postage stamps, but of course all from her own era, from 2055.

But it would be a year and more than a hundred tests later before we would begin to see the first shadows of the 75- to 114-year-old genetic evidence that Walter Sickert and Jack the Ripper left when they touched and licked postage stamps and envelope flaps.

Just waiting to rip you into little tiny squares like so many postage stamps.

In fact, during the Civil War, when coins were scarce, people used postage stamps enclosed in brass frames instead.