copybook
nounEtymology From copy + book.
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A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.
- She whipped up the cards on the floor, extinguished an unglobed candle, and ruffled open the pages of Claude's copybook.2001, Allen Kurzweil, A Case of Curiosities:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.
- Derived terms
- blot one's copybook