postal

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  1. adjective Of or relating to a post office or mail service.
  2. idiom go postal Slang To become extremely angry or deranged, especially in an outburst of violence.

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  • He opened it to the sketch that had made Cherner go postal, the drawing copied from Ben Feinman's blotter. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Feb. 2002
  • Dear Uncle Alfred, Thank you very much for the postal order. —  A Demon In My View
  • He was like an old woman looking for a postal order she thought she had somewhere; he went on and on and over and over, never tired, and always remembering just one more place to look. —  Coroner's Pidgin - Margery Allingham - Campion 12: 1945
  • They made him sign for them, and for the postal order his father had sent, and he was put to get changed in a side room. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • I do suppose it's better than going postal, after all. —  Larry Brown Sports
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  1. from French postal = Portuguese postal = Italian postale; as post, n., + -al.
 

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