Blotter

noun, slang

noun, slang ·2 syllables ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.
  2. 2
    the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station wordnet
  3. 3
    A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.
  4. 4
    absorbent paper used to dry ink wordnet
  5. 5
    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."

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  1. 6
    A portion of blotter acid. slang

    "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."

Synonyms

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blotting paperpolice blotterabsorbencyabsorbentabsorptionaccount book

Example

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"All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger."

Etymology

From blot + -er.

Related phrases

blotter acidblotter artpolice blottertrade blotterblotting paperpolice station

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