ditto machine

English

Alternative forms

• Ditto machine

Etymology

From the name of the manufacturer, Ditto Corporation.

Noun

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, →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.

Derived terms

• ditto