| 词汇 | snail mail |
| 词源 | snail mail. A humorous synonym for postal mail coined in the early 1980s by some anonymous e-mail user. Electronic e-mail is of course much faster than regular mail. The expres- sion was born in the U.S. but is widely used today. |
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