special delivery (English, noun)
expansion: special delivery (countable and uncountable, plural special deliveries)
Senses:
glosses: A kind of postal service in which, for an extra fee, letters and packages are delivered in a highly expedited manner by a special courier.
tags: uncountable
glosses: A particular posted letter or package which is delivered in this manner; a particular act of conveying such letters or packages to one or more recipients.
tags: countable
glosses: Something—whether desirable or undesirable—which is intentionally given to a specific individual or which an individual receives rapidly and unexpectedly; the personalized, direct quality of the transmission of such an item.
tags: broadly
countable
humorous
idiomatic
sometimes
uncountable
Forms:
form: special deliveries
tags: plural