stop press
English
editAlternative forms
edit- stop-press when used as a noun in attribution
Etymology
editFrom stop the presses, US newspaper-printing jargon.
Pronunciation
editAudio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
edit- (UK, journalism) The event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.
- 1989, Textual Introduction to The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton [1]
- Three of the errata corrections had already been made as stop-press corrections [...]
- 2002, Russell Miller, Behind the Lines [2]
- Faked Stop Press! announcements in newspapers. A valuable trick because it can always be claimed that the announcement was ‘hushed up’. It is also easy to fake the printing of the Stop Press.
- 2005, Mary Norway, The Sinn Fein Rebellion As I Saw It, [3]
- Another lady thought she would drive a lesson home, so she said: “But you said it was a ‘Stop press,’ and you knew it was not.”
- “It is, miss, but sure they hadn’t time to print the ‘stop press’ on it!!”
- (“Stop press” is the latest news, usually printed on the back of the paper.)
- 2023 March 8, “Tube drivers announce "first day of action"”, in RAIL, number 978, page 11:
- STOP PRESS: As this issue of RAIL went to press, the RMT announced that it too would be taking strike action on the Tube on March 15
- 1989, Textual Introduction to The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton [1]
Verb
editstop press (third-person singular simple present stops press, present participle stopping press, simple past and past participle stopped press)
- (UK) Used to announce an event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.
- (idiomatic, UK) Used to grab attention, implying importance, news-worthiness, etc.
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