Usually means: Delivery requiring exceptional handling, care.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word special delivery:

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  1. special delivery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. special delivery: Merriam-Webster
  3. special delivery, special delivery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. special delivery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. special-delivery, special-delivery, special delivery: Collins English Dictionary
  6. special delivery: Vocabulary.com
  7. special-delivery: Wordnik
  8. special delivery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. special delivery: Wiktionary
  10. special delivery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. special delivery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. special-delivery, special delivery: Dictionary.com
  13. Special Delivery (Dottie West album), Special Delivery (TV series), Special Delivery (song), Special Delivery, Special delivery (postal service): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. special delivery: Rhymezone
  15. special delivery: FreeDictionary.org
  16. special delivery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. special-delivery, special delivery: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Special Delivery, special delivery: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (special delivery)

noun:  (uncountable, sometimes hyphenated when used attributively) A kind of postal service in which, for an extra fee, letters and packages are delivered in a highly expedited manner by a special courier.
noun:  (countable) A particular posted letter or package which is delivered in this manner; a particular act of conveying such letters or packages to one or more recipients.
noun:  (countable and uncountable, idiomatic, by extension, sometimes humorous) Something—whether desirable or undesirable—which is intentionally given to a specific individual or which an individual receives rapidly and unexpectedly; the personalized, direct quality of the transmission of such an item.

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