[1930–35; post- + consonantal]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boondoggle, hypercorrection, logical positivism, saddle stitch, videopost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)