Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To edit, revise, or correct with or as if with a blue pencil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing process; -- of books, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To edit, especially to censor, written documents.
- verb politics, slang To use a
line-item veto
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cut or eliminate
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Examples
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It contains no hints as to the disposing of manuscript, the vagaries of the blue-pencil, the filing of material, nor the innate perversity of adjectives and adverbs.
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Hey pepole I would like to fame hello i like be given up about a reveal together with girlish pepole, and touch up blue-pencil compress with them
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I gave this one the full blue-pencil sketch with brush and ink over it.
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I gave this one the full blue-pencil sketch with brush and ink over it.
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The editor drew a blue-pencil line through the multiple advice to buy and buy, and initialled the rest of the column for publication.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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I gave this one the full blue-pencil sketch with brush and ink over it.
Best Books of 2009 2010
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He would have described Kinser as an envy-driven bumptious self-important snake-oil salesman had he not been sure the little blue-pencil devil would let him get away only with 'ambitious'.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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She doesn't blue-pencil; she just points out perceived deficiencies in the text and then asks me to find ways to sort them out.
Editor: surgeon or butcher? L. Lee Lowe 2007
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I invite PT's many blue-pencil readers to sharpen their pencils -- and wits -- and have a go at the grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. of the flyer and to submit a critique.
Archive 2007-04-01 Dan 2007
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I invite PT's many blue-pencil readers to sharpen their pencils -- and wits -- and have a go at the grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. of the flyer and to submit a critique.
Plainfield Gazette attacks Damon, McWilliams, Saturdays and Truth Dan 2007
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