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postage stamps

postage stamps is the plural of postage stamp.

Meaning of postage stamp

Noun

postage stamp (plural postage stamps)

  1. A small piece of printed paper stuck on an item to be mailed, indicating that postage has been paid.
    • The postage stamps on the letters from overseas were almost as interesting as the letters themselves.
  2. (colloquial, figuratively) A very small area.
    • We have just a postage stamp of a back garden.
  3. (slang) The upper left- or right-hand corner of the goal.
    • […] got in on the act himself, firing in an unstoppable shot that arced into the postage stamp top corner of Andy Goram's goal.2011, Alistair Aird, Ally McCoist - Rangers Legend
    Synonyms:
    top bin

Questions about postage stamps

What is postage stamps the plural of?
Postage stamps is the plural of postage stamp.

Words near postage stamps in the dictionary

  1. postage meter
  2. postage meters
  3. postage rate
  4. postage rates
  5. postage stamp
  6. postage stamps
  7. postage-due stamp
  8. postages
  9. postagricultural
  10. postagriculture
  11. postal

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