blottos

Noun (1)

blotto (plural blottos or blottoes)

1. (informal) A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated.
   • Remember, Blanche DuBois was a blotto and her trip to New Orleans didn't get her anywhere. Nuff said.1979, Margaret Oberman, Doug Steckler, I Could Have Been a Contender: Or, The Other Book of Lists, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 102
2. An artwork created using blots of ink or paint.
   • The authors' most penetrating work seems to me, their contribution along the lines of the interview with the child, the use of sketches, blottoes, etc. "Draw a picture of this house. Who lives there? Show where the different members sleep" […]1932, Public Health Reviews, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Division of Hygiene and Public Health, University of Michigan, →OCLC

Noun (2)

blotto (uncountable)

1. A reagent made from non-fat dry milk, phosphate buffered saline, and sodium azide, which is used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques such as blots and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
   • Secondary goat anti-rabbit antiserum coupled to horseradish peroxidase at a dilution of 1:500 in blotto was then incubated with the blot for 1 hour. Again the unbound antibodies were removed by three rinses in 10% blotto for 15 minutes.2006, Kimberly Kay Kutz-Naber, Mass Spectral Characterization of Neuropeptides in Cancer Crabs: Method Development and Biological Application (unpublished Ph. D. dissertation), [Madison, Wis.]...

Noun (3)

blotto (plural blottos)

1. (obsolete) On Sulawesi: a hollowed-out tree trunk used as a boat.
   • The canoes that are in common use on the lake are of the most primitive and unstable type. They simply consist of a semi-cylinder, hollowed out of a tree stem, with the ends filled up with mud and grass. These canoes are called blotto or ballotto by the natives. […] They are of every size, from the...1889, Sydney J[ohn] Hickson, “Journey through Minahassa”, in A Naturalist in North Celebes: […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 217

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