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
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
In due time this was prepared in mimeo graph form and sent routinely to all the committee members.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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