legal pad

noun

1. a ruled writing tablet, usually yellow and measuring 8½ × 14 inches (22 × 36 centimeters).

Word History and Origins

Origin of legal pad¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Coleman said his monologue is continually updated.“I spend about an hour or two each day writing, and with every show I’m adding new material. I sit on my couch with a legal pad and pencil and just put down my thoughts. In my living room, I’m hysterical.”

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I remember staring at you with your yellow legal pad in a Paris hotel lobby while we drank cappuccinos and you wrote that four-page monologue for my character in “Inland Empire.”

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I took so many notes talking to Latinos about their hopes and fears in this election year that I filled up my legal pad.

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Jill Biden, wearing a purple blazer and scribbling on a white legal pad, sat in the first row of a drab fourth-floor courtroom on Monday, in a show of support for her son, Hunter, on the first day of his trial on federal firearms charges.

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She had a yellow legal pad in her lap, and, as she took a crack at attempt number twelve, she mumbled variations of the first line to herself trying to find the perfect words.

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