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headline

DEFINITIONS OF: headline

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n the heading or caption of a newspaper article

Synonyms:
newspaper headline
Types:
drop line, dropline, stagger head, staggered head, stephead, stepped line
a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right
screamer
a sensational newspaper headline
banner, streamer
a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
Type of:
head, header, heading
a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about

v provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline

Type of:
furnish, provide, render, supply
give something useful or necessary to

v publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline

Type of:
advertise, advertize, publicise, publicize
call attention to
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