mimeo meaning (dated): definition, etymology and quotations

mimeo

noun

UK /ˈmɪm.ɪ.əʊ/ · US /ˈmɪm.i.oʊ/

Etymology Abbreviation.

Abbreviation, Clipping, Dated Clipping of mimeograph (“type of copying machine”).

Underground film and performance art were blossoming; backroom mimeo presses seemed to be everywhere.2004, Martin Torgoff, “Everybody Must Get Stoned”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 105:

Abbreviation, Clipping, Dated Clipping of mimeograph (“a copy made by such a machine”).

Dated An unpublished academic paper.

verb

Etymology Abbreviation.

Ambitransitive To make one or more copies using a mimeograph (machine).