typewriter
Etymology Pronunciation Noun
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Etymology Pronunciation Noun
typewriter (plural typewriters)
- A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
- (archaic) One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
- 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC ↗:
- He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.
- (US, dated, slang) A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
- A prank in which fingers are jabbed roughly onto someone's chest followed by striking them over the ear in imitation of using an old-fashioned typewriter.
- typographer
- (one who uses a typewriter) typist
- French: machine à écrire
- German: Schreibmaschine
- Italian: macchina da scrivere
- Portuguese: máquina de escrever
- Russian: пи́шущая маши́нка
- Spanish: máquina de escribir
- French: dactylo
- Russian: машини́стка
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