mimeo
See also: mimeo.
English
Etymology
Abbreviation.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɪm.ɪ.əʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɪm.i.oʊ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmɪm.ɪ.əʉ/
Noun
mimeo (plural mimeos)
- (dated) Clipping of mimeograph (“type of copying machine”).
- 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:
- Underground film and performance art were blossoming; backroom mimeo presses seemed to be everywhere.
- (dated) Clipping of mimeograph (“a copy made by such a machine”).
- (dated) An unpublished academic paper.
- Coordinate terms: manuscript, preprint, gray literature
Usage notes
- (unpublished paper): May refer to a paper that is not in the process of being published or that is not part of an institutional working paper series.
Verb
mimeo (third-person singular simple present mimeos, present participle mimeoing, simple past and past participle mimeoed)
- (ambitransitive) To make one or more copies using a mimeograph (machine).