mimeo

See also: mimeo.

English

Etymology

Abbreviation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪm.ɪ.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪm.i.oʊ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪm.ɪ.əʉ/

Noun

mimeo (plural mimeos)

1. A mimeograph.
   • 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:

     Underground film and performance art were blossoming; backroom mimeo presses seemed to be everywhere.

2. An unpublished academic paper.

Usage notes

• (unpublished paper): May refer to a paper that is not in the process of being published or that is not part of an institutional working paper series.

Verb

mimeo (third-person singular simple present mimeos, present participle mimeoing, simple past and past participle mimeoed)

1. To mimeograph.