blotto

1. (informal) A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated.Examples: "Remember, Blanche DuBois was a blotto and her trip to New Orleans didn't get her anywhere. Nuff said."; "His [Joe Jonsson's] drawings and rollicking humor about burglars, cardsharps, turf punters, jockeys and "blottos" (drunks) were a continuation in theme of the work of the early Bulletin artists Alf Vincent and Ambrose Dyson."; "These borderlines are outnumbered more than five to one by the "blottos," drivers with BACs [blood alcohol concentrations] of 0.20 and higher. Put this 0.08 idea to the commonsense test: We're going to improve highway safety with a program aimed at a few "borderlines," while five times as many "blottos" continue their boozy ways? It'll never work."informal

2. (art) An artwork created using blots of ink or paint.Examples: "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" […]"; "The pictures on these cards which I am going to show you are such ink-blot pictures. They do not really represent anything. They are accidental blottos. All you have to do is to look at them one by one and tell me what they might be, what they could represent for you."; "The ink splattered blottoes on the wall. The door closed precipitately. Screaming, "Told those monkeys to stay out unless I said come in!" The door opened and the jet brunette with the perfect profile minced in wearing a look of critical suffering."

1. (intransitive, informal) To become or cause to become (very) drunk or intoxicated.Examples: "An entire bottle would have blottoed me. I marvel how Leigh managed to give my name to the manager."; "Wherever distilled spirits dominate over beer or wine, this nocturnal culture emerges, and with it the kind of alcoholism that never plateaus but merely blottoes, retreating into a night of its own and sometimes remaining there for a week at a time. You witness this among Poles, Russians, Swedes and Finns, all of whom are expert blottologists."; "Ever since that first shag, his grades and interest in school had plummeted like a sad sack of stones. When they added alcohol and dope to that, using them until they blottoed out, doing well at school and getting a good job went out the fucking window."informalintransitive

2. (intransitive, informal) To be annihilated or destroyed; to be blotted out.Examples: "[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."; "John Huston provides a few of the worst moments himself, or, at least, his tape editor does it for him by bumblingly patching on Huston's voice in one series of spot announcements—Jehovah himself dictating Creation to the sounds of [Toshiro] Mayuzumi's fade-in, fade-out neo-primordial slither. Even for what it is, the music is badly performed, poorly recorded, and blottoed by a veritable orgy of editing and dial diddling."; "I recently read The Destruction of Dresden. That's where my family came from more than a hundred years ago, and the entire city was blottoed during the second world war. And then I looked up the city in a current Fodor's guide, and it is—at least along the Elbe—all back the way it was before the war."informalintransitive

1. (biochemistry) 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).Examples: "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."; "Generalized background staining of colostral cell preparations was blocked most effectively with Blotto + 10% FBS."; "Following transfer, the PVDF membrane was removed from the transfer cassette and placed in a sandwich tray and incubated in 20ml blotto (1×tBST, 7% nonfat dry milk and 0.1% Tween-20 pH 7.4) for 1 h while rocking."uncountable

1. (nautical, obsolete) On Sulawesi: a hollowed-out tree trunk used as a boat.Examples: "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 child's blotto of ten or fifteen feet in length to the fisherman's craft of fifty."; "The agent of the Packet Company is ready to give information about it, and to look after the hiring of horses and blottos."; "The Poso River flows out from the large lake of that name,[…]. The mouth is shallow, but inside the depths are 3 to 7 fathoms, and in the dry season Rumuru can be reached in “blottos” (hollowed-out tree trunks) in about two days. In the rainy season the current is strong. Rumuru is the junction of many paths from the interior, along which forest produce is conveyed and then shipped in "blottos.""obsolete