headlinese

English

Examples
The headline "College Sports Parking Tax Plan Critic to Quit City Hall" might denote that a criticizer of a plan to tax parking at college sporting events will leave his municipal employment soon

Alternative forms

• headline-ese

Etymology

From headline ‎ -ese.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌhɛd.laɪˈniz/

Noun

headlinese (uncountable)

1. The jargon used in headlines of newspapers, often with unconventional grammar driven mainly by extreme brevity as a constraint of the medium.

   Hypernym: journalese

Related terms

• headline style (not to be confused)