Meanings
plural mimeos
- abbreviationclippingdatedClipping 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 - abbreviationclippingdatedClipping of mimeograph (“a copy made by such a machine”).
- datedAn unpublished academic paper.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo make one or more copies using a mimeograph (machine).
More synonyms by meaning
nouna rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo)
verbprint copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Abbreviation.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
mimeo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mimeo
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