mimeo

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UK/ˈmɪm.ɪ.əʊ/US/ˈmɪm.i.oʊ/Australia/ˈmɪm.ɪ.əʉ/

noun

An unpublished academic paper.

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mimeographmimeograph machineRoneoRoneograph
UncommonScrabble 9

Meanings

nounmimeo (plural mimeos)

plural mimeos

  1. 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
  2. abbreviationclippingdatedClipping of mimeograph (“a copy made by such a machine”).
  3. datedAn unpublished academic paper.
verbmimeo (third-person singular simple present mimeos, present participle mimeoing, simple past and past participle mimeoed)

present singular third person mimeos · participle present mimeoing · participle past mimeoed · past mimeoed

  1. ambitransitiveTo make one or more copies using a mimeograph (machine).

    Synonyms: mimeograph

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo make one or more copies using a mimeograph (machine).

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More synonyms by meaning

nouna rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo)

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mimeographmimeograph machineRoneoRoneograph

verbprint copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

mimeo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mimeo

MLA

“mimeo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mimeo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mimeo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mimeo.

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