blotter n.1
1. (US) a drunkard with a seemingly infinite capacity for alcohol [plays on soak n.1 (1)].
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Knocking the Neighbors 157: He was the original Blotter. When they were trying to pry him away from it, he would take a chance on anything from Arnica to Extract of Vanilla. | |
| ‘More Stanford Expressions’ in AS VII:6 436: A drunkard is a ‘funnel,’ ‘tank,’ ‘blotter,’ or ‘sponge’. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Big Clock (2002) 100: ‘Listen, this fellow is a human blotter.’ ‘All right, get drunk with him, if you have to.’. | |
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2. in drug contexts.
(a) a small piece of cotton through which a drug solution is filtered as it is drawn into a needle.
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. |
(b) any drugs that are retrieved by soaking or boiling such a cloth.
| ONDCP Street Terms 3: Blotter — Cocaine. |
(c) (also blotter acid, blotter cube) a dose of LSD carried on a small square of blotting-paper; the paper and the drug it has absorbed are consumed together [acid n.1 (1); for a specimen list of names for such doses, see zebra n. (6)].
| Current Sl. V:4 8: Blotter acid, n. LSD soaked in paper. | |
| Snowblind (1978) 94: He could hit you with lids, caps, keys, tabs, nickel bags, blotters, buttons, spoons and everything from milligrams to boatloads. | |
| Faggots 161: A hit of Blotter by 4, acid not usually ingested so late, but a long night was wanted. | |
| Bk of Jargon 336: blotter, blotter acid: A dose of LSD impregnated in a small segment of paper. | |
| Breaks 101: He had been busted for selling blotter acid. | |
| (con. 1970s) King Suckerman (1998) 167: This guy I know, Danny? He had this blotter, man. | |
 | ‘Take’m to the Water’ 🎵 on Dark Days, Bright Nights [album] Ate a ten-strip of blotter, been wiggin all week long / Y’all keep on, with that jibbery jabbery slippin out happily / Expose you pretty hoes with a dose of this hospitality. | |
| ONDCP Street Terms 3: Blotter cube — LSD. | |
| Cadillac Beach 36: ‘Whenever I cross the Broward line, I get all jelly-like inside.’ [...] ‘That happens to me on orange blotter.’. | |
| Ten Storey Love Song 2: Johnnie from upstairs sorted him two blotters. | |
| Cherry 17: I was going through a blotters phase. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
(US Und.) charged with a crime.
| [ | | Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 7 Jan. 10/1: In tho meantime the sergeant had been making an ontry in the blotter] . |
| Junior Republic Citizen 21/2: It will be seen that the citizen who appears as number ‘90’ on the Blotter was arraigned upon a charge of profanity. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sun. Times (Perth) 3 June 9/3: [from McClure’s Mag.] A policeman took The Snitcher to the station where he was registered on the ‘blotter’ . | |
| N.Y. Tribune 24 Jan. 29/1: There’s a lot goes on in the precinct that never gets on the blotter. | |
| Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 26 Feb. 3/4: The ‘Bouncer,’ a burly bloke with a police-blotter past, strewn with the prostrate bodies of victims of his justly- celebrated uppercut. | |
| (con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 384: They got seventeen cats indicted down there, dig me. They got the Brookside chief of police on the blotter, and a sheriff too. | |
| [ | | (con. 1950-1960) Dict. Inmate Sl. (Walla Walla, WA) 13: Blotter – a book in which arrests, etc. are recorded]. |
| Wild Tales from the Police Blotter 222: Then there is the poor working snook who gets on the blotter just because he was trying to do his job. |