postage stamp
noun1
A small piece of printed paper stuck on an item to be mailed, indicating that postage has been paid.
- The postage stamps on the letters from overseas were almost as interesting as the letters themselves.
2
Colloquial, Figuratively A very small area.
- We have just a postage stamp of a back garden.
3
Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Soccer, Sports Slang The upper left- or right-hand corner of the goal.
- […] got in on the act himself, firing in an unstoppable shot that arced into the postage stamp top corner of Andy Goram's goal.2011, Alistair Aird, Ally McCoist - Rangers Legend:
- Derived terms
- could be written on the back of a postage stamp, could fit on the back of a postage stamp, semi-postal stamp
- Related terms
- mail, philately, postage code