peekaboo card

noun

A kind of punch card that could be used to find records matching several categories by aligning cards for the records and retaining those where a hole could be seen all the way through the stack of cards.

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Meanings

nounpeekaboo card (plural peekaboo cards)

plural peekaboo cards

  1. historicalcomputingA kind of punch card that could be used to find records matching several categories by aligning cards for the records and retaining those where a hole could be seen all the way through the stack of cards.
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “peekaboo card,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/peekaboo%20card.

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