ditto machine

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From the name of the manufacturer, Ditto Corporation.

Noun

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ditto machine (plural ditto machines)

  1. (US, historical, printing) Synonym of spirit duplicator
    • 2011 May 7, Margalit Fox, “Lanny Friedlander, Founder of Reason Magazine, Dies at 63”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      As Mr. Friedlander conceived it, Reason was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left — in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two. It was genuinely purple at first, as it was run off on a ditto machine.

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