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Definition |
someone who
has lost their temper and is behaving in a violent manner |
Examples |
1)
He
went postal
when he saw the bill. 2) I was
afraid she was going to go postal
on me when I told her the bad news. |
Etymology |
a phenomenon
that occurred in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, where
employees of the US Postal Service became extremely violent and
attack their coworkers |
Synonyms |
go
berserk, go ballistic |
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