dittonoun/ˈdɪtəʊ/

• 1

  That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.

  • [...] they entered a dismal-looking parlour, whose brick-red walls and ditto curtains were scantily lighted by a single lamp, though it was of the last new patent—[…]
  • […]a spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners:[…]
• 2

  The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.

• 3

  historicalA suit of clothes of the same color throughout.

• 4

  educationA copy made by (run off by) a ditto machine (especially, a worksheet thus reproduced).

  • Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment for my students.
  • Mr. Zappadia gave each student a ditto of a black-and-white cow.
• 5

  A copy; an imitation.

  • "You've got to look good to feel good," she announces, a ditto of television slogans.
  • Last year, Argenta-Oreana blanked the Chiefs 23-0 in a second-round game Dee-Mack coach Jim McDonald said was "pretty much a ditto" of what transpired Saturday.

dittoadv/ˈdɪtəʊ/

• 1

  As said before, likewise.

  • The inflationary effect of injecting $1 billion into the economy could be dire; ditto the impact on the tumbling bolivar of treating foreign reserves as if they were the government's piggy-bank.
  • Some of the players were concerned about what the future held for them – given that one of the measures involved Chelsea not being able to operate in the transfer market or offer new contracts. Ditto many members of staff.

dittoverb/ˈdɪtəʊ/

• 1

  To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.

  • The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police.
• 2

  To make a copy using a ditto machine.

  • But they were all purple, Dittoed—worn, torn, stained with coffee.
  • I was going to join a commune of my friends. I sort of issued a declaration of independence which I dittoed up and put in everybody's mail box in the department.

dittointj/ˈdɪtəʊ/

• 1

  Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.

  • I'm really busy today! —Ditto!
  • "Besides, if I'm only a sort of thing in his dream, what are you, I should like to know?" "Ditto," said Tweedledum. "Ditto, ditto!" cried Tweedledee.