blotter

blotter

1. One who is prone to drink large quantities of alcohol. Of course Grant doesn't remember what happened at the bar last night—he's a total blotter.
2. The log of arrests made by police. Also known as a "police blotter." Mom will freak out if you do anything to land in the police blotter!
3. The drug LSD (as it can be sold on pieces of blotting paper). I need to get some blotter before the concert.

police blotter

The written record of events, especially arrests, that occur on a daily basis in a police station or precinct. The local newspaper has been printing the police blotter provided by the station every day for the past 70 years, regardless of what kind of crime has been happening in the town or not.
See also: blotter
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

blotter

1. n. a drunkard. (see also sponge.) The guy’s a blotter. He’ll drink anything and lots of it.
2. n. the drug LSD, sold on bits of blotting paper. (Drugs.) Blotter can bring one to five dollars a pop.
3. n. a police station log of arrests; a police blotter. The blotter is full of the names of petty criminals and drunks.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

police blotter

A precinct's daily written record of arrests. In the days before ballpoint pens, much less computers, police station house records were kept with ink pens, the writing from which had to be blotted to keep the ink from smearing. Sheets of paper might come and go, but the blotter's indelible imprint remained as a metaphorical reminder of the name of the person who was arrested. That's why many old gangster movies has lines about the cops checking a bad guy's record on the police blotter.
See also: blotter
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
See also:
  • beer up
  • do the drink thing
  • prone to
  • beer blast
  • beer bust
  • by the handful
  • handful
  • arise
  • arise from
  • arose
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The objectives of the current study were to compare the fungal diversity associated with local and exotic rice grain germplasm by different isolation methods (agar and blotter plate method).
COMPARISON OF FUNGAL DIVERSITY OF LOCAL AND EXOTIC RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) GERMPLASM FOR THEIR SEED HEALTH
Independente do tratamento da semente (com e sem endocarpo) e do metodo de analise (BDA e blotter test), no geral, os fungos Fusarium spp.
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Alternatives have not jettisoned all the rules of the traditional police blotter. Davis, for instance, insists that while items can have a funny spin, they must be "accurate, accurate, absolutely accurate." And most alternative blotter items don't name names.
Goodbye, Boring Blotters: 'Cop Shop' Gets New Life
Put both the blotter and damp map somewhere to dry together.
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The film is set in Berlin's spring-blooming Tiergarten; its only props are a playing card, a clothespin, a vintage German bicycle, a thermos, and last but not least, a blotter of lysergic acid diethylamide, which Graham casually drops on his tongue while reposing on a rock.
A thousand words: Rodney Graham talks about the phonokinetoscope
At the time, Edward Moore Kennedy's only public record was on the blotter of the Virginia State Police, who issued speeding tickets to the University of Virginia Law School student.
EDWARD M. KENNEDY: A Biography
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The collectables, including a walnut mounted desk blotter and matching cigarette lighter, were discovered among a treasure trove of items gathering dust in a shed.
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I found the (superstar's) name on a police blotter and decided to let someone else worry about him for the next four years."
An "A" for the NCAA...
Sandwich the flowers or leaves between two pieces of blotter paper set between pieces of corrugated cardboard in a flower press.
Flowers forever
Mary Ann Blotter and Richard Ruth are two professional psychotherapists who along with their colleagues have written a sensitive and thought provoking book that represents a major milestone in the psychological study of disability.
Sometimes You Just Want to Feel Like a Human Being: Case Studies of Empowering Psychotherapy with People with Disabilities
Other combinations include placemats in the shape of blotter mats featuring a lame center and velvet border.
Table Trends puts on Ritz
A shimmering blue-green tide follows the defeated glaciers northward, ascends the cool alpine valleys, creeps around the Great Lakes, and finally over-spreads the Hudson Bay Lowlands like ink on a blotter. At the leading edge are lichens and mosses; then come sedges, rushes, and other flowering plants, and finally willows, poplars, and conifers.
Tough little trees on the fringe
Ferris of the Bethesda, Md.-based NEI, "The retina absorbs the fluid like a blotter, swells up and loses its shape, so the image is distorted.
New laser role for diabetes eyed
Banac cited the figures lifted from the Crime Information Reporting and Analysis System (CIRAS) or what is commonly known as the PNP-Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM)'s enhanced electronic blotter (e-Blotter).
Car theft incidents down by 56.8% nationwide