postal

Connected with collecting, sorting, or delivering letters and packages.

• What is your postal code?
• Postal workers delivered the letters this morning.
• The postal service is slower during the holidays.

Common phrases: postal service, postal worker, postal code

Extremely angry and possibly violent, especially in the phrase “go postal”.

• He went postal over the bill.
• I thought the boss would go postal.
• She nearly went postal when they lost her luggage.

How to use it: go postal (He went postal when he saw the damage.)

Similar words: furious, enraged

Opposites: calm

Common phrases: go postal, almost go postal

Behaving in a wild or uncontrolled way.

• The crowd went completely postal.
• He was acting totally postal after three sleepless nights.
• Everyone went postal when the singer walked onstage.

How to use it: go postal (Everyone went postal when the band appeared.)

Similar words: crazy, wild

Common phrases: go postal, completely postal, totally postal