- snail mail
- noun Date: 1983 1. mail delivered by a postal system 2. mail 3
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snail mail — ► NOUN informal ▪ the ordinary post as opposed to email … English terms dictionary
snail mail — noun any mail that is physically delivered by the postal service email is much faster than snail mail • Ant: ↑electronic mail, ↑e mail, ↑email • Hypernyms: ↑mail, ↑mail service, ↑postal service, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
snail-mail — n. post office mail; regular mail as opposed to electronic mail. (Refers to the slowness of regular mail in comparison to electronic mail or faxes.) □ I’ll send you the full text by snail mail. □ There are lots of color pictures in the article,… … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
