typo

A typographical error.

Near-synonyms: misprint; slip of the pen, lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ

Sorry, I meant to say “buy a SODA”—“sofa” was a typo.

To make a typographical error.

Tell your mother that that essay I wrote for THE WRITER, that mentions you, is now in print in the Aw-Ghost issue. But they typoed Elfquest, so now it reads Elquist. I see I had typoed it myself, leaving out the “f” but they worsened it.

A compositor; a typographer.

On the highest, rear seat was James Williams, of Cloverdale, Missouri, and his Bride. Capitalise it, friend typo—that last word—word of words in the epiphany of life and love.

“Ever since I was twelve,” she said, “I have worked in a printing office where a celebrated London morning journal is put in type and goes to press. […] I am attached to a man in our office, to whom I shall be married some day. […] I am nineteen now, and have carried on with my ‘typo’ for nearly three years now.