mimeograph
Americannoun
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a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
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a copy made from a mimeograph.
verb (used with object)
noun
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an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed
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a copy produced by this machine
verb
Other Word Forms
- unmimeographed adjective
Etymology
Origin of mimeograph
Formerly a trademark
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Example Sentences
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Is it sort of like a mimeograph, where the more you copy it, the fuzzier the image gets?
From Slate • Nov. 17, 2025
Steinem remembers the days in which hand-outs and calls to action were made on a primitive duplicating machine called a mimeograph.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023
“We did everything from mimeograph to walk door to door,” Molina said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2023
Accept them completely and she’d become a mimeograph.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2023
Reporters would telephone in stories to writers wearing headphones, and the writers would stencil the stories on mimeograph sheets.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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