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postal

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom/[ˈpəʊstl̩]/
  • United States/[ˈpoʊstl̩]/

Relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail.

adjective

  1. 1

    Relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail.

    He's a postal worker, and has been in the postal industry for decades.

    We sell stamps and stationery for all your postal needs.

  2. 2

    slangCrazy, insane.

    to go postal

    SANDI: Maybe I should just have my own party, since you obviously think I'm postal.

Etymology

From post + -al, modelled on French postal.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).