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headline-grabbers

headline-grabbers is the plural of headline-grabber.

Meaning of headline-grabber

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

Questions about headline-grabbers

What is headline-grabbers the plural of?
Headline-grabbers is the plural of headline-grabber.

Words near headline-grabbers in the dictionary

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

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