blotto
see also: Blotto
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈblɒtəʊ/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈblɑtoʊ/, /-ɾoʊ/
Adjective

blotto

  1. (informal) (Very) drunk#Adjective|drunk or intoxicated#Adjective|intoxicated. [from early 20th c.]
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:drunk
    • 1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Mr. Roscoe Sherriff has an Idea”, in Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, publishers […], published 1921, OCLC 10689802 ↗, page 62 ↗:
      Dear old Squiffy was always rather a lad for the wassail-bowl. When I met him in Paris, I remember, he was quite tolerably blotto.
Noun

blotto (plural blottos)

  1. (informal) A person who is (very) drunk#Adjective|drunk or intoxicated#Adjective|intoxicated.
  2. (art) An artwork created using blot#Noun|blots of ink#Noun|ink or paint#Noun|paint.
Translations Verb

blotto (blottos, present participle blottoing; past and past participle blottoed)

  1. (intransitive, informal) To become or cause to become (very) drunk#Adjective|drunk or intoxicated#Adjective|intoxicated.
  2. (intransitive, informal) To be annihilated or destroyed; to be blotted out.
Translations Translations
  • Italian: essere fatto
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈblɒtəʊ/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈblɑtoʊ/, /-ɾoʊ/
Noun

blotto (uncountable)

  1. (biochemistry) A reagent made from non-fat dry#Adjective|dry milk#Noun|milk, phosphate buffered#Adjective|buffered saline#Noun|saline, and sodium azide, which is used to block#Verb|block protein binding site#Noun|sites for laboratory techniques such as blot#Noun|blots and the enzyme-linked#Adjective|linked immunosorbent assay#Noun|assay (ELISA).
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /b(ə)ˈləʊtəʊ/
  • (GA) IPA: /b(ə)ˈloʊtoʊ/
Noun

blotto (plural blottos)

  1. (nautical, obsolete) On Sulawesi: a hollow#Verb|hollowed-out tree trunk used as a boat.

Blotto
Noun

blotto (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of blotto (“reagent used to block#Verb|block protein binding site#Noun|sites for laboratory techniques”).



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