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fudge box

fudge box noun: a mechanical contrivance into which linotype slugs containing late-breaking news are clamped.

Noun

fudge box (plural fudge boxes)

  1. (historical) A mechanical contrivance into which linotype slugs containing late-breaking news are clamped.
  2. (broadly) A small blank area left in a newspaper layout for the insertion of late-breaking news.

Forms of fudge box

pluralfudge boxes

Questions about fudge box

What does fudge box mean?
Fudge box means a mechanical contrivance into which linotype slugs containing late-breaking news are clamped.
What part of speech is fudge box?
Fudge box is a noun.
What is the plural of fudge box?
The plural of fudge box is fudge boxes.

Words near fudge box in the dictionary

  1. fude-pens
  2. Fudenberg
  3. fudepen
  4. fudepens
  5. fudge
  6. fudge box
  7. fudge boxes
  8. fudge cake
  9. fudge cakes
  10. fudge dragon
  11. fudge dragons

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