brown elf
n.— «Mr. Dotson said that in their familiar brown uniforms, UPS carriers are often known as the Brown Elves. “You get a lot of faces at the door,” he said. “And then you get a bunch of kids screaming, ‘He’s here, he’s here.’”» —“Shippers play Santa’s helper: Services face crunch as holiday approaches” by Kate House-Layton in Dover, Delaware Newszap.com Dec. 11, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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