(~s, headlining, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is the title of a newspaper story, printed in large letters at the top of the story, especially on the front page.
The Daily Mail has the ~ ‘The Voice of Conscience’...
N-COUNT
2.
The ~s are the main points of the news which are read on radio or television.
I’m Claudia Polley with the news ~s.
N-PLURAL
3.
If a newspaper or magazine article is ~d a particular thing, that is the ~ that introduces it.
The article was ~d ‘Tell us the truth’.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed quote
4.
If someone ~s a show, they are the main performer in it.
VERB
5.
Someone or something that hits the ~s or grabs the ~s gets a lot of publicity from the media.
El Salvador first hit the world ~s at the beginning of the 1980s...
PHRASE: V inflects