catchword
/kach-wurd/US // ˈkætʃˌwɜrd //UK // (ˈkætʃˌwɜːd) //
口号,口头禅,口诀,口语
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n.名词 noun
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- : a memorable or effective word or phrase that is repeated so often that it becomes a slogan, as in a political campaign or in advertising a product.
- : Also called headword, guide word. a word printed at the top of a page in a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last entry or article on that page.Compare running head.
- : a device, used especially in old books, to assist the binder in assembling signatures by inserting at the foot of each page the first word of the following page.
- : keyword.
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Examples
The idea that jazz has become a catchword for pomposity is painful for those of us who care deeply about this music.
Whenever we take up a new idea as a crowd, we at once turn it into a catchword and a fad.
It used to be a catchword of naval correspondents that "submarine cannot fight submarine."
“Unclean,” he muttered, recalling a catchword of the world he gazed upon.
Despots obtain their mastery over the crowd by the sword: demagogues by the catchword.
A man who has done that has seen England--not the name or the map or the rhetorical catchword, but the thing.
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