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noun
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.
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Origin of comic strip
An Americanism dating back to 1915–20
Words nearby comic strip
comical, comic book, Comice, comic opera, comic relief, comic strip, Com. in Chf., Comines, Cominform, coming, coming and going, have someone
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British Dictionary definitions for comic strip
comic strip
noun
a sequence of drawings in a newspaper, magazine, etc, relating a humorous story or an adventureAlso called: strip cartoon
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