tag-line
tag line
noun
1.
the last line of a play, story, speech, etc., used to clarify or dramatize a point.
2.
a phrase or catchword that becomes identified or associated with a person, group, product, etc., through repetition: Entertainers often develop tag lines, like Ted Lewis's “Is everybody happy?”
3.
Machinery. (on a crane) a cable for steadying a suspended bucket at the rear.
Also, tag·line.
Origin:
1935–40
1935–40
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| tag line | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an amusing or memorable phrase designed to catch attention in an advertisement |
| 2. | another name for punch line |
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Tag-line
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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