blotter

noun — 5 senses

blotter

noun

Etymology From blot + -er.

1

A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.

2

A strip of such paper saturated with perfume.

3

Government, Law enforcement A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.

4

A register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions.

  • All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.
  • He maintains the political blotter blog.
1 more example
  • "The blotter was so full of his scribbling, it was getting harder and harder to find places to write in."2003, Karen Hood-Caddy, The Wisdom of Water:
5

Slang A portion of blotter acid.

  • Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive:
Derived terms
blotter acid, blotter art, blottery, electroblotter, miniblotter, police blotter, trade blotter

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