ditto machine
nounEtymology From the name of the manufacturer, Ditto Corporation.
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Media, Printing, Publishing US, Historical Synonym of spirit duplicator.
- As Mr. Friedlander conceived it, Reason was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left — in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two. It was genuinely purple at first, as it was run off on a ditto machine.2011 May 7, Margalit Fox, “Lanny Friedlander, Founder of Reason Magazine, Dies at 63”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- ditto