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HEADLINESE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does headlinese mean?
• HEADLINESE (noun)
The noun HEADLINESE has 1 sense:
1. using the abbreviated style of headline writers
Familiarity information: HEADLINESE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Using the abbreviated style of headline writers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("headlinese" is a kind of...):
expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)
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