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comic strip

noun

  1. a sequence of drawings, either in color or black and white, relating a comic incident, an adventure or mystery story, etc., often serialized, typically having dialogue printed in balloons, and usually printed as a horizontal strip in daily newspapers and in an uninterrupted block or longer sequence of such strips in Sunday newspapers and in comic books.


comic strip

noun

  1. a sequence of drawings in a newspaper, magazine, etc, relating a humorous story or an adventure Also calledstrip cartoon


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Word History and Origins

Origin of comic strip1

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20

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Example Sentences

Billy the Fish is the hero of an English comic strip about a fish-man hybrid who is a football star.

After participating in online reality comic strip competition Strip Search, that idea morphed into OJST.

While it angered fans to see the comic strip depart the funny pages, the animated version gained serious attention.

While other jazz cats describe their music in liner notes, Carey relies on a comic strip.

To paraphrase the famed comic strip Pogo, we have met the enemy ... and he is them.

This new role of dodging the Gestapo appealed enormously to his comic strip sense of melodrama.

Madge exclaimed, relapsing into comic-strip slang as she always did when greatly excited.

I cannot seem to appreciate the local art forms as disseminated by the juke box, the comic strip, the tabloid.

Past master in creating the comic strip with a side-splitting wallop.

Beetle Bailey is a comic strip character who walks around with his hat over his eyes very much as Oswald did.

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