dittos

Noun

ditto (plural dittos or dittoes)

1. That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
   • [...] they entered a dismal-looking parlour, whose brick-red walls and ditto curtains were scantily lighted by a single lamp, though it was of the last new patent—[…]1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 127
2. The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.

   Synonyms:

   ditto mark, ditto sign, do., do

3. (historical, in plural) A suit of clothes of the same color throughout.
4. (uncommon) A copy made by (run off by) a ditto machine (especially, a worksheet thus reproduced).
   • Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment for my students.
5. (broadly) A copy; an imitation.
   • "You've got to look good to feel good," she announces, a ditto of television slogans.1991, N. Romano-Benner with S. Murphy, “Convoking the muses of Cuenca”, in Americas, volume 43, number 1, page 6

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