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bluebooking

bluebooking is the present participle and gerund of bluebook.

Meaning of bluebook

Verb

bluebook (third-person singular simple present bluebooks, present participle bluebooking, simple past and past participle bluebooked)

  1. To format a document, particularly a legal document including citations, according to the rules of the Bluebook, a US style guide.
    • After all, the nonmember author who has never participated in the endless chores of bluebooking and typing is more successful than most law review members in writing a piece of publishable quality.1988, The Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 39, Part 2, page 914
  2. (roleplaying games) To have players describe, in writing and in-between regular role-playing sessions, character activities that don't involve the entire group.

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Questions about bluebooking

What is bluebooking the present participle and gerund of?
Bluebooking is the present participle and gerund of bluebook.

Words near bluebooking in the dictionary

  1. bluebok
  2. bluebonnet
  3. bluebonnets
  4. bluebook
  5. bluebooked
  6. bluebooking
  7. bluebooks
  8. bluebottle
  9. bluebottles
  10. bluebreast
  11. bluebreast darter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bluebooking (page history and authors); bluebook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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