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dropline

[ drop-lahyn ]

noun

, Journalism.
  1. a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dropline1

First recorded in 1880–85; drop + line 1

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