mimeo
Americannoun
plural
mimeosEtymology
Origin of mimeo
First recorded in 1940–45; by shortening
Example Sentences
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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
Nineteen years later, Students for a Democratic Society used a mimeo to make 20,000 copies of their manifesto, "The Port Huron Statement," which helped spread the cause of student activism in the '60s.
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
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