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    [Noun]  | "de*liv*ery" | \ di-ˈli-v(ə-)rē \


    1: the act or manner of delivering something; also : something delivered


    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Noun]  | "delivery boy" 


    1: a person employed by a retail store to deliver small orders to customers on call


    Origin: 1918 ;

    [Noun]  | "delivery room" 


    1: a special room in a hospital where women give birth to babies

    [Noun]  | "breech delivery" 


    1: delivery of a fetus by breech presentation —called also breech birth


    Origin: 1832 ;

    [Noun]  | "general delivery" 


    1: a department of a post office that handles the delivery of mail at a post office window to persons who call for it


    Origin: 1846 ;

    [Noun]  | "rural free delivery" 


    1: free delivery of mail to a rural area —called also rural delivery


    Origin: 1891 ;

    [Noun]  | "special delivery" 


    1: expedited messenger delivery of mail matter for an extra fee


    Origin: 1865 ;

    [Noun]  | "recorded delivery" 


    1: mail for which a person must sign an official document stating that it has been received

    [Idiom]  | "on delivery" 


    1: when goods are received

    [Idiom]  | "take delivery of" 


    1: to receive (something that is being delivered)

    [Noun]  | "delivery" 


    1: a freeing from an obligation or responsibility;


      * e.g., " ... the school bell signaled our delivery from the tortures of math class "



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    2: the act or process of giving birth to children;


      * e.g., " ... her second delivery took only three hours "



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    [Noun]  | "delivery boys" 


    1: as in carriers, couriers;


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    [Noun]  | "delivery boy" 


    1: as in carrier, courier;


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    [Noun]  | "rural free delivery" 


    [Noun]  | "rural delivery" 


    [Noun]  | "special delivery" 


     [ "delivery" ]

    1: A term used in the sport of Cricket.

      * e.g.,  ... That last delivery nearly took the batsman's head off! 


     [ "delivery" ]

    2: When the bowler sends the ball down to the batsman.

     [ "delivery" ]

    1: When a dealer brings drugs around to your house or meets you somewhere near your pad.

      * e.g.,  ... "I'll ring up 'old mate' for a delivery." 

     [ "Delivery" ]

    1: delivery(rap delivery) is the creation of a ryhme scheme set to a certain parameter of principles and variations and also manipulated to contain a sense of spontaneity in the ryhme. delivery depends vastly on changes in the ending sylables;

      * e.g.,  ... damn homie, mc yella's ryhmes are simple, but, they got mad delivery. 


     [ "Delivery" ]

    2: variations of prolonged similar rhymes, and eventually if the skill is atianable variating the ending syllables to create eloquence and rythm.


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    3: there are several principles to how these variations are managed, but these principles vary from rapper to rapper due to differences in rappers individual style and delivery. so basically, the way one rap's to make their rap's unique.

     [ "It's not delivery" ]

    1: The event of the pizza boy stealing your wife.

      * e.g.,  ... Ian: I can't believe it wasn't delivery. 

     [ "Delivery" ]

    1: The act of removing a liver

      * e.g.,  ... The murderer killed three people and then performed a delivery on them. 

     [ "Chinese Delivery" ]

    1: The act of paying for over priced American food of which an American chain restaurant claims to contain "meat" and no MSG. It is also certain that it will be hard to understand the Asian over the phone, taking at least an hour to get to you, when you discover the delivery driver wrecked the delivery vehicle, appearing to your door on foot. Also, these Asians always expect a large tip.

      * e.g.,  ... Them Chinese Delivery people need their own insurance agency to give them appropriate rates. 

     [ "Delivery Dance" ]

    1: A god awful ad made by GrubHub that shows poorly modeled "humans" dancing and eating food at the same time. Spawned funny edits that are better than the actual advertisement.

      * e.g.,  ... GrubHub: Lets show boneless humans that are animated by illuminations dance in the worst way possible and call it delivery dance 

     [ "cockroach delivery" ]

    1: A common practice seen during Pandemic Life where hole-in-the-wall dive restaurants deliver their regular filthy food, complete with their regular cockroaches, to your door.

      * e.g.,  ... Hey you guys, Gino’s has contactless cockroach delivery; lets get us some calzones and pizzas! 

     [ "delivery fries" ]

    1: when your friend asks you to pick up food for him, you can get yourself some fries and he has to pay for it. its like payment for delivering him his food

      * e.g.,  ... chip: sarina, thanks for picking up these hot wings. they're amazing 

     [ "freebirds delivery" ]

    1: The delivery service that brings infamous Isla Vista Freebirds food to the drunk and high students of UCSB. They have a $20 minimum which drives everybody insane and they ride their bikes around like it's the Indy 500. (They deliver via bicycle.)

      * e.g.,  ... Kazzzoooooommmm! 

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