dropline

[ drop-lahyn ]

nounJournalism.
  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.

Origin of dropline

1
First recorded in 1880–85; drop + line1

Words Nearby dropline

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