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headline-grabber

headline-grabber noun: a person or event that attracts prominent notice in the news media.

Noun

headline-grabber (plural headline-grabbers)

  1. (informal) A person or event that attracts prominent notice in the news media.
    • ‘Recidivism” – the tendency to reoffend – is a word that is largely confined to criminology lectures, official statistics and the occasional government report. It is not a headline-grabber like “hooligan”, “thug” or “teen gangster”.2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian

Forms of headline-grabber

pluralheadline-grabbers

Questions about headline-grabber

What does headline-grabber mean?
Headline-grabber means a person or event that attracts prominent notice in the news media.
What part of speech is headline-grabber?
Headline-grabber is a noun.
What is the plural of headline-grabber?
The plural of headline-grabber is headline-grabbers.

Words near headline-grabber in the dictionary

  1. headline
  2. headline inflation
  3. headline inflations
  4. headline style
  5. headline-ese
  6. headline-grabber
  7. headline-grabbers
  8. headlined
  9. headliner
  10. headliners
  11. headlines

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