mail, verb
- Origin:
- Back-formation from mailer.
slang
1. transitive. To send (someone) to buy or deal in liquor illicitly.
a1977 K.M.C. Motsisi in M. Mutloatse Casey & Co. (1978) 64Once in a while you found a gweva who was as dirty as his face and his rags. You mail him for a bottle of mahog. What does he do? He creeps back with a bottle of cheap vino. Gives it you on the sly at a street corner and scuttles.
2. intransitive. To act as a go-between in the purchase of illicit liquor.
1980 E. Joubert Long Journey of Poppie Nongena 209I know this man, I see him walking up and down, he’s a mailer. For whom does he mail? He carries drink to the shebeen queens.
To send (someone) to buy or deal in liquor illicitly.
To act as a go-between in the purchase of illicit liquor.
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