British term for the bag a postal worker carries to deliver mail, but it's also widely used in a figurative sense to describe the volume of letters, emails, or messages received — especially by public figures, broadcasters, or politicians.
British term for the bag a postal worker carries to deliver mail, but it's also widely used in a figurative sense to describe the volume of letters, emails, or messages received — especially by public figures, broadcasters, or politicians. When a TV presenter says they've received a 'huge postbag' on a topic, they mean they got an overwhelming response from viewers. It's a handy word for talking about audience or reader feedback at scale.
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A straightforward, crude slang term for a colostomy bag — a medical pouch attached externally to collect waste after certain surgeries that reroute the digestive tract. The term is typically used informally and sometimes dismissively by patients themselves or their close circles, functioning as dark humor around a sensitive medical reality. Less commonly, it may be used as a general insult, but the medical meaning is its primary documented sense.
British slang, primarily used in Scotland and Northern England, for a drug addict — particularly someone who uses heroin or other street drugs heavily. The bag element likely references the small bags in which drugs are sold or carried. Used without much sympathy in casual conversation but not always with pure contempt; context determines tone. Strongly associated with working-class urban environments.
(British, transitive, idiomatic, humorous, metonym) To attack verbally or subject to criticism (typically used of a woman).
The MP's postbag was flooded with letters after the controversial vote.
(British) A bag used for carrying post (mail).
“A rummage through the Sunday Mirror's television postbag (5th May 1968)”
(chiefly, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) A box into which mail is put.