blotter
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ər noun
1.
a piece of blotting paper used to absorb excess ink, to protect a desk top, etc.
2.
a book in which transactions or events, as sales or arrests, are recorded as they occur: a police blotter.
3.
Machinery. a soft washer of blotting paper or felt for cushioning a brittle object against shock or pressure or for increasing the friction or contact area between two surfaces.
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| —n | |
| 1. | something used to absorb excess ink or other liquid, esp a sheet of blotting paper with a firm backing |
| 2. | (US) a daily record of events, such as arrests, in a police station (esp in the phrase police blotter) |
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Blotter
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
blotter
1590s, "thing for drying wet spots," from blot. Meaning "bad writer" is from c.1600. Sense of "day book" is from 1670s, and the word was applied early 19c. to rough drafts, scrap books, notebooks, and draft account books. Hence the police jargon sense "arrest record sheet," recorded from 1887.
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Slang Dictionary
blotter definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
More celebrities who have been in the police blotter recently.
He scowled at me over the blotter, called me a thief, and said that he had a good mind to lock me up.
Checking the police blotter as college football nears.
Only once did one of the dedicated students show up in the police blotter.
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