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blotter

blotter noun: a piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.

Noun

blotter (plural blotters)

  1. A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.
    1. (perfumery) A strip of such paper saturated with perfume.
  2. A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.
    Synonyms:
    police blotter
  3. A register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions.
    • All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.
    • He maintains the political blotter blog.
  4. (slang) A 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

blotter meaning in Kannada

blotter in Kannada

ಹೀರುಕ, ಹೀರು ಕಾಗದ

Examples of blotter in a sentence

  • We read about his DUI in the police blotter.
  • Assigned to the city desk for years, she pounded a beat of city council and mayoral activity, police blotters, and the like.
  • Everything on his writing desk was squared off: blotter, paper knife, pen rack.

All 14 example sentences with blotter

Synonyms of blotter

Forms of blotter

pluralblotters

Origin of blotter

From blot + -er.

Words formed from blotter

Phrases with blotter

Words that rhyme with blotter

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Questions about blotter

What does blotter mean?
Blotter means a piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.
What is blotter in Kannada?
Blotter in Kannada is ಹೀರುಕ, ಹೀರು ಕಾಗದ. See Blotter meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is blotter?
Blotter is a noun.
What is the plural of blotter?
The plural of blotter is blotters.

Words near blotter in the dictionary

  1. blotted
  2. blotted one's copy book
  3. blotted one's copybook
  4. blotted out
  5. blotted up
  6. blotter
  7. blotter acid
  8. blotter art
  9. blotters
  10. blottery
  11. blottesque

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