mimeo
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of mimeo
First recorded in 1940–45; by shortening
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Is there a particular mimeo you’re still hunting down?
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2017
The mimeo documents would be circulated for comments.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2011
British soldiers use a mimeo machine to produce a news sheet in their bomb-damaged office.
From National Geographic
All of the speeches come from the same source: the high-speed mimeo graph in the Seattle basement of the ghost who writes and retails them by mail at $2.50 apiece.
From Time Magazine Archive
I remember the catalogue from the first show, done on a mimeo machine, smeared and illegible, its poverty a badge of authenticity.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
These mimeos cost between $50 and a hundred dollars in 1950, equivalent to about $500 to a thousand dollars today, and were at first mostly used in schools and offices.
From National Geographic
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