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stop press

stop press noun: an event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.

Noun

stop press

  1. (UK) An event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.
    • Three of the errata corrections had already been made as stop-press corrections …1989, Textual Introduction to The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=C64iQVqCm3MC&pg=RA1-PR51&lpg=RA1-PR51&sig=JpcrTaGG5EdPxJjr2U8VwuilsEw
    • Faked Stop Press! announcements in newspapers. A valuable trick because it can always be claimed that the announcement was ‘hushed up’. It is also easy to fake the printing of the Stop Press.2002, Russell Miller, Behind the Lines http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=iAtuxaBlfRkC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&sig=erWM7_pq0H8pCDJnv5W4-5bxlv0

Verb

stop press (third-person singular simple present stops press, present participle stopping press, simple past and past participle stopped press)

  1. (UK) Used to announce an event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.
  2. (UK, idiomatic) Used to grab attention, implying importance, news-worthiness, etc.

stop press meaning in Tamil and Kannada

stop press in Tamil

இதழை, வெளியீட்டை நிறுத்து

stop press in Kannada

ಅಚ್ಚುಹೊತ್ತಿನ ಸುದ್ದಿ, ಇತ್ತೀಚಿನ ಸಮಾಚಾರ, ತಾಜಾ ಸುದ್ದಿ, ಕೊನೇ ನಿಮಿಷದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದ ಸುದ್ದಿ

Forms of stop press

Noun
alternative formstop-press
Verb
third-person singular presentstops press
present participlestopping press
past participlestopped press
paststopped press

Origin of stop press

From stop the presses, US newspaper-printing jargon.

Questions about stop press

What does stop press mean?
Stop press means an event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.
What is stop press in Tamil?
Stop press in Tamil is இதழை, வெளியீட்டை நிறுத்து. See Stop press meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stop press?
Stop press can be a noun or a verb.

Words near stop press in the dictionary

  1. stop over
  2. stop payment
  3. stop payments
  4. stop plank
  5. stop planks
  6. stop press
  7. stop set
  8. stop sets
  9. stop short
  10. stop sign
  11. stop signs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stop press (page history and authors); stop press (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stop press (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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