bluebook
Speech parts
1. bluebook - Noun
2. bluebook - Verb
Meaning
bluebook (plural bluebooks)
A blank booklet of lined paper used in the administration of examinations, so named because of its pale blue front and back covers.
(law) To format a document, particularly a legal document including citations, according to the rules of the Bluebook, a US style guide.
(roleplaying games) To have players describe, in writing and in-between regular role-playing sessions, character activities that don't involve the entire group.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Hemingway hated me. I outsell him and he was steamed. One day he wrote a story for Bluebook berating me. So I'm going on a big TV show in Chicago and I don't get it, that's sour grapes... I mean if you can't say something nice about someone why say anything at all?
According to one legal style manual, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation 102 (Columbia Law Review Ass'n et al.
All records pertaining to this unit were surrendered to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations in conjunction with operation BLUEBOOK."
He provides the following examples: In legal writing in the United States, Rule 5.3 in the Bluebook citation guide governs the use of ellipses and requires a space before the first dot and between the two subsequent dots.