North American informal Offered or sent without prior agreement; unsolicited: the editors receive about ten manuscripts a week over the transom...- But once everyone adjusts, those couple hundred emails will mean nothing more than the couple dozen letters that might have physically come in over the transom in the old days.
- I get a lot of stuff over the transom, and this year I am going to do my best to thank everyone who's contributed material to the site.
- An apology came over the transom about an hour later.
See parent entry: transom