bulldog edition
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bulldog edition
An Americanism dating back to 1925–30
Example Sentences
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His mind and drawing board were blank, and the bulldog edition over at the Chicago Tribune would wait just so long.
From Time Magazine Archive
We used to have a very good sale on our bulldog edition, but with TV, the rise in subway fares, plus the rise in our own circulation price, our paper sales were hurt.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a newspaper forages through its news calendar, seizes whatever news it can find or rehash, throws an edition into print and out upon the streets ahead of competitors, that edition is a "bulldog" edition.
From Time Magazine Archive
If possible, he hoped, he would be able to get in a few words about the big feature story on the front page of the bulldog edition of El Imparcial.
From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan
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