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straplines

straplines is the plural 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

Questions about straplines

What is straplines the plural of?
Straplines is the plural of strapline.

Words near straplines in the dictionary

  1. straplessly
  2. straplessness
  3. straplike
  4. strapline
  5. straplined
  6. straplines
  7. strapoff
  8. strapoffs
  9. strapon
  10. strapons
  11. strappable

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