throwaway panel
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A panel in the top row of a Sunday strip, intended to be inessential so it can be removed to save space.
Example Sentences
- "The long throwaway panel at the top shows the type of scale and atmosphere one can evoke with a bit more room."
- "The throwaway panel cannot contain any information vital to the main narrative of the strip. To test this page, skip the throwaway panel when reading; nothing is lost."
- "Some of Schulz's throwaway panels are very interesting. They gave him a place to experiment or doodle or just play around, as with the above drawing of Peppermint Patty as a weed."
Inflected Forms
throwaway panel [Alt: Sunday comic strip panel layout (canonical)
designed to fill a third of a newspaper page.] The same comic with the throwaway panels removed (canonical)
filling a third of a newspaper page. (canonical)
throwaway panels (plural)