Ditto

First attested in 1625. From Italian ditto, variant of detto, past participle of dire ("to say"), from Latin dÄ«cÅ ("I say, I speak").

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(plural dittos or dittoes)

Charles DickensA spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners.
2008, May 22, New 'Indiana' film whips up plenty of thrills, The opening shot of "Crystal Skull" shows the playful side of director Steven Spielberg, who seems to have a weak spot for cute animals. See "AI Artificial Intelligence" for Exhibit A. Ditto for executive producer George Lucas. See "Return of the Jedi" for Exhibit B.
2009, July 3, Andy Murray: easy to admire, but can we learn to love him?, He has created for himself a honed, primed-for-victory body and is working hard on a ditto mind.

(informal) A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicatorPlease run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment, for my students.
A copy; an imitation.

1991, N. Romano-Benner, Convoking the muses of Cuenca, "You've got to look good to feel good," she announces, a ditto of television slogans.
2003, Argenta appears unfazed, 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.
2009, Brunswick school hopes to be model for uniforms, The intent of the policy, she said, is "not to put everybody in a ditto environment," where all are expected to look and act exactly like all others.

A symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), when indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.

1989, K. K. N. Kurup, Agrarian struggles in KeralaThe Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police.