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shoutline

shoutline noun: a line of text that is formatted to be particularly eye-catching.

Noun

shoutline (plural shoutlines)

  1. A line of text that is formatted to be particularly eye-catching.
    • The shoutline of the poster for the film (which had some theatrical exhibition in countries like Spain, Germany and some in South America and a substantial video release) was: 'He came to destroy her family. And she fell in love with him.'1999, Julian Friedmann, Roy Ascott, How to Make Money Scriptwriting, →ISBN, page 74
    • Apart from the imprint, and the type size, the two versions differ only in the spelling on the front cover, in that the Duckworth shoutline describes the book as 'an hilarous collection of apocryphal anecdotes', a mistake that for ever more mortified the meticulous Colin when, in proudly passing me...2000, Rodney Dale, The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend, →ISBN, page 191

Forms of shoutline

pluralshoutlines

Origin of shoutline

From shout + line.

Questions about shoutline

What does shoutline mean?
Shoutline means a line of text that is formatted to be particularly eye-catching.
What part of speech is shoutline?
Shoutline is a noun.
What is the plural of shoutline?
The plural of shoutline is shoutlines.

Words near shoutline in the dictionary

  1. shouting matches
  2. shouting out
  3. shouting the odds
  4. shoutingly
  5. shoutings
  6. shoutline
  7. shoutlines
  8. shoutout
  9. shoutouts
  10. shouts
  11. shouts down

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