headlinese
English
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The headline "College Sports Parking Tax Plan Critic to Quit City Hall" might denote that a criticizer of a plan to tax parking at college sporting events will leave his municipal employment soon |
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[edit]Noun
[edit]headlinese (uncountable)
- The jargon used in headlines of newspapers, often with unconventional grammar driven mainly by extreme brevity as a constraint of the medium.
- Hypernym: journalese
Related terms
[edit]- headline style (not to be confused)