blotter
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈblɑːtər/
- Formal
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libro de registro
- Individuals listed in the blotter have been arrested on probable cause and have not been formally charged.
- the police blotter
Examples
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How many DUIs are in the police blotter every week?
Blog text (25) -
Late Friday, he released this week's blotter without the names of those charged with engaging a prostitute.
Blog text (15) -
And only one of them ends up on a police blotter.
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Saw it right there on the police blotter.
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I told you to put the verdict on the police blotter.
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Birmingham police blotter: "I'm not going to hurt anybody," one robber tells his partner in crime.
Blog text (33) -
The one unexpected happening was the homicide on the Pickax police blotter, but that was a long story, starting twenty-odd years before.
Fiction book (2000) -
Some were listed in blotters kept in police stations, others in courthouses; anyone who wished to take the trouble could go there and read them.
Academic text (2009) -
The officer reviewed the day's events on the police blotter, including several arrests and incidents.
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Every morning, the chief examines the police blotter to assess crime levels in the area.
Synonyms
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3.1
A written record of events or actions kept over time
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7.4
A daily record of arrests and other events at a police station
A daily written record of arrests and events at a police station
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blotter for a police daily record comes from a desk pad once called a blotter that people used for writing and for absorbing extra ink from the verb blot 'to soak up'. Officers wrote their notes on that pad, so the pad's name came to mean the station's daily log.