blotter
blotter Lexical Profile
blotter Game Scores & Validity
• noun
North American A daily logbook or register in which events, transactions, or arrests and charges at a police station are temporarily or chronologically recorded.
"The local newspaper publishes a weekly summary of minor offenses taken directly from the town's police blotter."
A pad, sheet, or roller holding absorbent paper used for drying wet ink on a newly written surface, or a protective pad placed on a desk.
"He pressed the brass-handled blotter onto the freshly signed parchment to prevent the ink from smudging."
A small square of absorbent paper impregnated with a liquid drug, especially LSD, for oral administration.
"Forensic chemists analyzed the confiscated blotter tabs in the laboratory to determine the exact dosage of the substance."
• Rhymes for blotter
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the late 16th century as an agent noun from the verb 'blot' (of Middle English origin, likely related to Old Norse 'blettr' meaning 'stain' or 'spot'). The sense of a daily record book arose because such ledgers originally had sheets of blotting paper interleaved between the pages to dry fresh ink.