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  • noun Plural form of mimeo.

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Examples

  • Perhaps there is a lesson inherent in mimeos that extend beyond reminiscence, a gift our teachers inadvertently left behind.

    The Perfume of Mimeographs Michelle Krell Kydd 2007

  • The intense recollections built around mimeos or dittos, as they were often called show how the sense of smell is powerfully linked to memory.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2007

  • The intense recollections built around mimeos or dittos, as they were often called show how the sense of smell is powerfully linked to memory.

    The Perfume of Mimeographs Michelle Krell Kydd 2007

  • Perhaps there is a lesson inherent in mimeos that extend beyond reminiscence, a gift our teachers inadvertently left behind.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2007

  • Tripp, they always called them “mimeos” where I went to school (Southern NJ and then NE Ohio) until “Xeroxes” (Xeroxii?) replaced them.

    What? No Politics? « Whatever 2006

  • I remember teachers in school handing out ‘mimeos’.

    What? No Politics? « Whatever 2006

  • I remember teachers in school handing out ‘mimeos’.

    What? No Politics? « Whatever 2006

  • Dean, see, what I remember is sniffing the mimeos.

    What? No Politics? « Whatever 2006

  • Their labors in the Los Angeles office were similar to what they had done for King in Washington — slipsheeting mimeos, stuffing envelopes, talking to strangers on the phone — but the spirit was completely different.

    1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984

  • People kept driving up to the house to pick up stacks of mimeos, notes, pamphlets.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

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