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Definition of "snail mail" [snail mail]

  • Informal Mail delivered by a postal system, as distinct from electronic mail. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "snail mail" in a sentence
  • "In addition to Kathleen Miller’s research and Jeffrey McQuain’s and Elizabeth Phillips’s language aid, those helping me at the Times’ Washington bureau include my assistant Anne Elise Wort, who keeps her eye out for current words, and Todd Webb, who tries to keep up with both snail mail and e-mail."