Teletype
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
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a type of teleprinter
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(sometimes not capital) a network of such devices, used for communicating messages, information, etc
verb
Example Sentences
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One famous Texas baseball re-creator narrated an epic — and entirely imagined — at-bat in which the heroic batter fouled off 58 pitches before the Teletype finally spit out the next bit of actual news.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2016
About a year later, at what Ali titled the Thrilla in Manila, with Frazier, the Teletype reigned again in what I described as an “epic in brutality.”
From New York Times • May 1, 2015
Teletype machines at ringside were rendered useless and stories made it to newspapers via simple telephone dictation.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2014
In 1968, she signed on to the same Teletype machine that gave a young Gates access to a mainframe computer.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2013
Teletype machines clattered against the wall as spools of paper carrying news from around the world piled up on the floor.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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