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buck slip

American  

noun

  1. Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.


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“I’ll never forget Gordon sitting down, taking out his buck slip and saying, ‘What do you need?’”

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

Then one copy would come to a given branch, a buck slip slapped on it, and it would be routed around the branch.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2016

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