mimeograph

[mim-ee-uh-graf, -grahf]

noun

1. a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.

2. a copy made from a mimeograph.

verb (used with object)

1. to duplicate (something) by means of a mimeograph.

Mimeograph

/ ˈmɪmɪəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf /

noun

1. an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed

2. a copy produced by this machine

verb

1. to print copies from (a prepared stencil) using this machine

Other Word Forms

• unmimeographed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mimeograph¹

Formerly a trademark

Example Sentences

Mr. Cherkovski arrived on the literary scene in 1969, when he and Mr. Bukowski started Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns, a magazine printed on a mimeograph machine that lasted three issues, had one subscriber, and rejected poems with terse notes that began, “These won’t do.”

From New York Times

Democrats were essentially broke ahead of the 1972 campaign and dependent on an old mimeograph machine.

From Los Angeles Times

Steinem remembers the days in which hand-outs and calls to action were made on a primitive duplicating machine called a mimeograph.

From BBC

After the raid and forced closing of a June 4 museum in Hong Kong in 2021, Mr. Zhou donated several Tiananmen artifacts to a newly established permanent exhibit in New York, including a bloodstained banner, a tent and a mimeograph.

From New York Times

“We did everything from mimeograph to walk door to door,” Molina said.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• clone 
• copy 
• duplicate 
• emulate 
• imitate 
• mirror 
• photocopy 
• portray 
• print 
• recreate 
• reflect 
• repeat 
• replicate 
• reprint