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What does blue-pencil mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word blue-pencil? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To edit, especially to censor, written documents.
  2. (politics) To use a line-item veto.
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Dream: we invent a network for the transmission of images on the Net that can blue-pencil and disrupt all the conventions, clichés, stereotypes and manipulations that impose themselves on us every day.
He handed a map, with red-pencil and blue-pencil markings, along to von Schlichten.
Meantime I'll take your advice about my speech, Mac, and blue-pencil the how-to-be-good stuff.
You blue-pencil out of my poor paragraphs everything that's interesting.
I never do, and Harmer has to blue-pencil my copy mercilessly.
When he begins to blue-pencil that pay-roll, some one is going to be hungry.

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