stop press
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.
British usage
verb
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.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "1989, Textual Introduction to The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=C64iQVqCm3MC&pg=RA1-PR51&lpg=RA1-PR51&sig=JpcrTaGG5EdPxJjr2U8VwuilsEw Three of the errata corrections had already been made as stop-press corrections …"
- "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, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=kdp6DLzb6KcC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&sig=TWkyRKxWPtmbwiGPh_BvuIQNwlA 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.)"
- "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"
Etymology
From stop the presses, US newspaper-printing jargon.
Usage
- British usage