Definitions for mailbags

mailbags mail·bag

Spelling: [meyl-bag]
IPA: /ˈmeɪlˌbæg/

Mailbags is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in mailbags (aabgilms).

Definitions for mailbags

noun

  1. a large bag used by mail carriers for carrying mail, usually equipped with a shoulder strap.
  2. a large bag or pouch used in transporting mail in bulk from general post offices to branch offices, from city to city, etc.

Origin of mailbags

First recorded in 1805-15; mail1 + bag

Examples for mailbags

The mailbag came across this afternoon when we were sitting at the Teng, never thinking!

All of them therefore jumped up to greet the bearer of the mailbag, being greatly interested in news from the home folks.

The traineau she's all pile full of mailbag, and one man go along to drive the dog.

As we passed the Saint-Paul halt, our old friend, the postman, was on the platform to receive the mailbag.

But the policeman had a mailbag to deliver that night, and we had to push on.

But that evening she wrote several letters which she did not show Helen, and took them herself to the mailbag in the lower hall.

The village postmaster stood staring at an official envelope that had just been shaken out of a mailbag upon the sorting-table.

We scrambled out as best we could, and lost no time in salving the mailbag and our instruments.

"Ah, la juventud," said the old man who had brought the mailbag.

The padlock on that mailbag was all bent and bunged up when the stage smashed up against that tree.

Word Value for mailbags
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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