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snail vt.

To snail-mail something.

"Snail me a copy of those graphics, will you?"

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snail-mail n.

Paper mail, as opposed to electronic. Sometimes written as the

single word `SnailMail'. One's postal address is,

correspondingly, a `snail address'. Derives from earlier coinage

`USnail' (from `U.S. Mail'), for which there have even been

parody posters and stamps made. Also (less commonly) called

`P-mail', from `paper mail' or `physical mail'. Oppose email.

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