Definition of "copybooks" []

• Plural form of copybook. (noun)

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• "Personally, and as far as it goes, I see nothing wrong in continuous re-election of elected officials, given the proviso that they may be kicked out of office at the half-way point of any successive administration if they blot their copybooks to the extent that the electorate becomes adequately enraged to seek their removal by due democratic process as prescribed in the country's Constitution."
• "The jottings were scattered with other notes throughout some of the 73 exercise copybooks found 30 years after Christie's death among possessions in her seaside home."
• "Schools still teach cursive, usually the bare-bones style called D'Nealian, but they rarely make time to practice it the old-fashioned way with copybooks and constant repetition."