What is "blue-pencil"

Bluenoser \Blue"nos`er\); a Nova Scotian potato, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] blue-pencil \blue-pencil\ v. t. to change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing process; -- of books, etc.

vb. 1 To edit, especially to censor, written documents. 2 (context politics slang English) To use a line-item veto

1. v. cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: edit, delete]

2. [also: blue-pencilling, blue-pencilled]