Meanings
plural blotters
- A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.
Synonyms: desk blotter, desk pad
- A register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions.
He maintains the political blotter blog.
2 more examples
All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.
"The blotter was so full of his scribbling, it was getting harder and harder to find places to write in."
2003, Karen Hood-Caddy, The Wisdom of Water - slangA portion of blotter acid.
Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.
2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.
nounA strip of such paper saturated with perfume.
nounA daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian регистър
- регистър (registăr)police station register
Chinese Mandarin 記事簿 /记事簿
- 記事簿 /记事簿 (jìshìbù)police station register
German Protokollbuch, Polizeiregister
- Protokollbuchpolice station register
- Polizeiregisterpolice station register
Italian registro, brogliaccio
- registropolice station register
- brogliacciopolice station register
Russian журна́л, реги́стр
- журна́л (žurnál)police station register
- реги́стр (regístr)police station register
- кни́га за́писей (kníga zápisej)police station register
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
blotter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blotter
“blotter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blotter. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blotter,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blotter.
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