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dropline

American

[drop-lahyn] / ˈdrɒpˌlaɪn /

noun

Journalism.

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.

First recorded in 1880–85; drop + line ¹

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