Word info

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.org

Examples

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? Mickey Spillane

According to one legal style manual, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation 102 (Columbia Law Review Ass'n et al. Source: Internet

All records pertaining to this unit were surrendered to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations in conjunction with operation BLUEBOOK." Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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