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strap line

strap line is the alternative form of strapline.

Meaning of strapline

Noun

strapline (plural straplines)

  1. A secondary heading or headline, especially one printed above another.
  2. (UK) A memorable slogan attached to a commercial brand.
    • On Tuesday, Buzzfeed published a long piece by Reggie Ugwu, looking at how a variant of instrumental electronic music had become the favoured soundtrack of the “alt-right”, the US-based far-right movement. Within hours, a website whose strapline declares it is “destroying Jewish tyranny” had picked...2016 December 14, Michael Hann, “'Fashwave': synth music co-opted by the far right”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2018
    Synonyms:
    tagline

Forms of strap line

pluralstrap lines

Questions about strap line

What is strap line the alternative form of?
Strap line is the alternative form of strapline.

Words near strap line in the dictionary

  1. strap brake
  2. strap brakes
  3. strap game
  4. strap games
  5. strap in
  6. strap line
  7. strap lines
  8. strap mount
  9. strap mounts
  10. strap oil
  11. strap on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: strap line (page history and authors); strapline (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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