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chain letter

chain letter noun: a letter that can be mailed successively to different recipients, with each recipient ostensibly (but sometimes sarcastically) being instructed in the body of the letter to mail the letter to another person or persons.

Noun

chain letter (plural chain letters)

  1. A letter that can be mailed successively to different recipients, with each recipient ostensibly (but sometimes sarcastically) being instructed in the body of the letter to mail the letter to another person or persons.
    • By the second half of the 20th century, chain letters were ubiquitous enough to become a vector for scams, hoaxes, and viral lies. Chain pyramid schemes ran rampant through the U.S. mail system before they were made illegal in 1948.2020 January 24, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Divine Origins of the Horny Chain Text”, in The Atlantic

chain letter meaning in Tamil and Thai

chain letter in Tamil

தொடர்மடல் படி

chain letter in Thai

a letter that is mailed successively to different recipients
จดหมายลูกโซ่ jòt-mǎai-lûuk-sôo

Forms of chain letter

pluralchain letters

Questions about chain letter

What does chain letter mean?
Chain letter means a letter that can be mailed successively to different recipients, with each recipient ostensibly (but sometimes sarcastically) being instructed in the body of the letter to mail the letter to another person or persons.
What is chain letter in Tamil?
Chain letter in Tamil is தொடர்மடல் படி. See Chain letter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chain letter?
Chain letter is a noun.
What is the plural of chain letter?
The plural of chain letter is chain letters.

Words near chain letter in the dictionary

  1. chain guns
  2. chain hobble
  3. chain hobbles
  4. chain latch
  5. chain latches
  6. chain letter
  7. chain letters
  8. chain lightning
  9. chain locker
  10. chain lockers
  11. chain mail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chain letter (page history and authors); chain letter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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