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expressman

[ ik-spres-muhn, -man ]

noun

plural expressmen
  1. a person who makes collections or deliveries for an express company.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of expressman1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; express + man
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“In a very pleasant tone she introduced herself as Mrs. Kate Warne, stating that she was a widow, and that she had come to inquire whether I would not employ her as a detective,†Allan Pinkerton wrote, in “The Expressman and the Detective,†one of his many memoirs.

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It was an expressman with the largest box Mr. Popper had ever seen.

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Late one evening the expressman delivered a sack at the rear door, with a note from a friend in the city, stating that the writer, well knowing our liking for thoroughbred stock, had sent over one of the choicest game-chickens in San Francisco.

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“Guess I’d better take the ‘Round About’ with all that heavy baggage of yours, Mr. Schwarmer,†said Captain Dan Solomon, the expressman at the station.

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Although the young Pony Expressman was late at the next station, the fact that he had brought in a robber and had saved his mail pouch was quite sufficient excuse for the delay of the mail that day.

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