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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | 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. Source: Jargon File. |
Slang | Noun. Source: The combination of the words snail and mail. It is a reference to sending mail by postage instead of e-mail. Definition: It literally means physical mail. Context: Used to describe a method of sending information. Social Source: Northwest American computer hacker. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SNAIL-MAIL |
| Specialty definitions using "SNAIL-MAIL": out-of-band ♦ P-mail ♦ smail. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "SNAIL-MAIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 蜗牛邮件. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 달팽이 우편물. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ail-mailsnay snigel-post. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-l-l-m-n-s" | |
-1 letter: mainsail, manillas. | |
-2 letters: animals, laminal, laminas, liminal, manilas, manilla, mislain. | |
-3 letters: aaliis, animal, animas, animis, lamias, lamina, lanais, lianas, limans, limina, llamas, maills, manias, manila, nasial, saimin, salami, salina, simian, simlin. | |
-4 letters: aalii, alans, alias, almas, amain, amias, amins, amnia, anils, anima, animi, anlas, ilial, lamas, lamia, lanai, liana, liman, limas, limns, llama, maill. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-l-l-m-n-s" | |
+2 letters: leishmanial, misalliance. | |
+3 letters: millenarians, milliradians, misalliances, simoniacally, supraliminal. | |
+4 letters: antimalarials, misallocating, misallocation, sulfanilamide, unassimilable. | |
+5 letters: antialcoholism, antiliberalism, humanistically, metallizations, millenarianism, misallocations, miscalculating, miscalculation, mulligatawnies, multinationals, numismatically, organismically, sulfanilamides, talismanically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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