In informal English, you can use ditto to represent a word or phrase that you have just used in order to avoid repeating it. In written lists, ditto can be represented by ditto marks - the symbol " - underneath the word that you want to repeat. Lister's dead. Ditto three Miami drug dealers and a lady. 'ditto mark dittoes a mark (乂) that you write immediately under a word in a list to show that the same word is repeated
(1)Any brand of spirit duplicator, an inexpensive but now obsolete method of printing once used by fans and grade schools It was available in several colours but was most commonly a faded purple (2) Ditto: An SF convention devoted to fanzines and fanzine fans, modeled on Corflu