mimeograph
noun
mim·eo·graph
ˈmi-mē-ə-ˌgraf 
: a duplicator for making many copies that utilizes a stencil through which ink is pressed
mimeograph
transitive verb
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To avoid censorship, the poets published it using a mimeograph machine and wallpaper paste.
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Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
But most of the time, his comedy is a mimeograph of comedy.
—Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Later marketed as the mimeograph, this proto-photocopier will become the printer of choice for zinemakers still a century away.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 5 June 2024
So to try to fix Voyager 1's current woes, the dozen or so people on Dodd's team have had to pore over yellowed documents and old mimeographs.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
Democrats were essentially broke ahead of the 1972 campaign and dependent on an old mimeograph machine.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2024
An angry man typing out memos about an invisible world government might make a few mimeographs or carbon copies, but the chance that any ended up in a library, catalogued and preserved, is slight.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2023
The rarely exhibited three-page mimeograph is one of several drafts King and his advisors wrote.
—Briana A. Thomas, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
Ed Sanders, who read his first poems at Les Deux Mégots in 1961, remembered it as a place of political activism and a new, young poetics shaped by mimeograph machines and spirited readings.
—John Leland, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
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Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
But most of the time, his comedy is a mimeograph of comedy.
—Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Later marketed as the mimeograph, this proto-photocopier will become the printer of choice for zinemakers still a century away.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 5 June 2024
So to try to fix Voyager 1's current woes, the dozen or so people on Dodd's team have had to pore over yellowed documents and old mimeographs.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
Democrats were essentially broke ahead of the 1972 campaign and dependent on an old mimeograph machine.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2024
An angry man typing out memos about an invisible world government might make a few mimeographs or carbon copies, but the chance that any ended up in a library, catalogued and preserved, is slight.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2023
The rarely exhibited three-page mimeograph is one of several drafts King and his advisors wrote.
—Briana A. Thomas, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
Ed Sanders, who read his first poems at Les Deux Mégots in 1961, remembered it as a place of political activism and a new, young poetics shaped by mimeograph machines and spirited readings.
—John Leland, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
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“Mimeograph.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mimeograph. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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mimeograph
noun
mim·eo·graph
ˈmim-ē-ə-ˌgraf
: a machine for making copies of typewritten or written matter using a stencil
mimeograph
verb
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