An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
Look, with these gals that want to buy it, most of them are older, dignified. Social Register types, you know what I mean? They can't be trotting down to Times Square to pick out the merchandise. They got to have some kind of, uh, middleman.
An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
To put text on paper using a typewriter.
To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
To determine the blood type of.
Very, extremely.
I don't think Brooklyn slang is that different from Manhattan slang. But I'm not used to a lot of the slang my friends use. Months ago, I first heard, "There are mad heads here." I was like, "Where did that come from?" For a while they were saying, "That's type funny." I was like: "What? What do you mean by that?" It means "very funny." Or they were like, "That's dumb stupid." I'm like, "That's redundant."
From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).
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The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.