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  • noun A short line of text designed to catch the eye, especially one used as an advertising slogan

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Examples

  • You'll be able to follow that game with my colleague Michael Solomon right after this one, by the way …Also … How pleased do we reckon that movie exec was when he came up with "Golden Receiver" as the Air Bud 2 catchline?

    Baltimore Ravens 20 New England Patriots 23 - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2012

  • You know, sometimes, some books don't really need a catchline.

    Gerald Sindell: Why Michiko? Why? 2009

  • The catchline of this review suggests the movie is a presentation not of a utopia but of a distopia, but that's not exactly correct.

    Movie Review: The Invasion 2007

  • The catchline of this review suggests the movie is a presentation not of a utopia but of a distopia, but that's not exactly correct.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • New Internationalist, November 2001 had a cracking if controversial catchline - Twin Terrors yet while its Fact Splash with a still much over-estimated level of 11 September 2001 casualties pointed up a brace of terrors that Mark Twain had spotted ...

    Bin Laden Driver: Bush and Putin Compare Notes 2008

  • Have you ever seen a catchline which refers, say, to the attitude that a judge brings to the interpretation of a contract?

    Wiki wha hae – the Scots are here — Slaw 2007

  • Over the image of a wrapped gift, the solicitous catchline, “Wife need new shoes?” is accompanied by the American Concrete logo and a greeting, “Happy Holidays.”

    A Little Wife-Killing Humor for Your Holiday Cheer 2007

  • Over the image of a wrapped gift, the solicitous catchline, “Wife need new shoes?” is accompanied by the American Concrete logo and a greeting, “Happy Holidays.”

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Holi, the boisterous carnival of colours, brings to the mind the catchline, United colors of Benetton.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Inspector Pradeep Sharma - whose catchline to reporters was "criminals are filth and I'm the cleaner" - is fighting charges of murder and corruption.

    The Guardian World News Jason Burke 2011

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