night letter
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night letter
noun night letters
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A telegram sent overnight at a reduced rate for delivery on the morning of the following day, typically with a minimum charge for 25 words or less.
"Someone named Rose sent a night letter from Philadelphia asking for six free tickets. A relative?"
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- An unsigned leaflet distributed clandestinely. Until one night this October, when members of Echo Company, from the Second Battalion, Fourth Marines […] quietly sneaked into Juz Ghoray and posted signs on people’s doors and windows. Their idea was to co-opt the infamous Taliban practice of intimidating government sympathizers with night letters
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title = {night letter},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/night%20letter},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
