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blotto¹
- /ˈblɒtəʊ/ UK
- /ˈblɑtoʊ/ US
- /-ɾoʊ/ US
Rhymes with -ɒtəʊ
Where it comes from
From blot + -o. The verb sense “to be annihilated or destroyed” may be related to blot out.
adjective more blotto · most blotto
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(Very) drunk or intoxicated.
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.
Similar: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten
noun blottos · blottoes
- A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated. Remember, Blanche DuBois was a blotto and her trip to New Orleans didn't get her anywhere. Nuff said.
- An artwork created using blots of ink or paint. The authors' most penetrating work seems to me, their contribution along the lines of the interview with the child, the use of sketches, blottoes, etc. "Draw a picture of this house. Who lives there? Show where the different members sleep" […]
verb blottos · blottoes · blottoing · blottoed
- To become or cause to become (very) drunk or intoxicated. An entire bottle would have blottoed me. I marvel how Leigh managed to give my name to the manager.
- To be annihilated or destroyed; to be blotted out. [H]is soul, spinning in centrifugal lust and fury until he sputters out through the hole in the center of him; going down like a gas bag—vault, cellar, ribs, skin, blood, tissue, mind, and heart all consumed, devoured, blottoed in final annihilation.
blotto²
- /ˈblɒtəʊ/ UK
- /ˈblɑtoʊ/ US
- /-ɾoʊ/ US
Rhymes with -ɒtəʊ
Where it comes from
Acronym of bovine lacto transfer technique optimizer.
noun Blotto
- A reagent made from non-fat dry milk, phosphate buffered saline, and sodium azide, which is used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques such as blots and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Secondary goat anti-rabbit antiserum coupled to horseradish peroxidase at a dilution of 1:500 in blotto was then incubated with the blot for 1 hour. Again the unbound antibodies were removed by three rinses in 10% blotto for 15 minutes.
blotto³
- /b(ə)ˈləʊtəʊ/ UK
- /b(ə)ˈloʊtoʊ/ US
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].
noun blottos
- On Sulawesi: a hollowed-out tree trunk used as a boat. The canoes that are in common use on the lake are of the most primitive and unstable type. They simply consist of a semi-cylinder, hollowed out of a tree stem, with the ends filled up with mud and grass. These canoes are called blotto or ballotto by the natives. […] They are of every size, from the
Blotto⁴
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of blotto (“reagent used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques”). Generalized background staining of colostral cell preparations was blocked most effectively with Blotto + 10% FBS.
Translations
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noun person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated
| Italiano | ubriacone, avvinazzato, beone, alcolizzato |
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verb to become (very) drunk or intoxicated
| Italiano | ubriacarsi, sborniarsi |
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verb to be annihilated or destroyed
| Italiano | essere fatto |
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noun reagent used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques
| العربية | بلوتو |
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