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headline status

usually an inside joke or funny anecdote that you deem worthy to put on your myspace as your headline.
friend 1- "i was not a crappy hamper...OOPS! i meant happy camper!"
friend 2- "Headline Status!!!"

Headline Speak 

Speaking with extreme brevity, in the way of a news headline. A natural shift in language for the Gen Y gang who thrives on Tweets, Emot-icons, and Vanity Plates.
Instead of saying, "It has been discovered that Captain John Smith engaged in sexual relations with a Native Indian woman known as Pocahontas", I used my Headline Speak and said, "Captain Boned a Native".
Headline Speak by Slugworthy March 30, 2011

Headline Shirts 

The newest addition of T-shirt ads to Urbandictionary, normally advertising with the header "Intelligently Funny Tees". Similar to Noise Bot and Snorgtees, they have jokes on them that invariably fail to be humorous.
Relent
Lessly
Awe
Some

Saw this on one of those Headline Shirts the other day. For fuck's sake, someone call the failtrain.
Headline Shirts by ShAdOwZ May 21, 2009

Headline Grabber 

A headline grabber is a person who is a HUGE attention seeker. If they are in some kind of trouble, ill, had an argument, or are bored, you'll know about it. And so will everyone else. People that can be legitimately titled "Headline Grabber" are;
1) Those that cut themselves and make sure everyone sees the wounds as they stare melodramatically into the distance
2)Those that think they "might be pregnant" all the time
3) Anyone who goes out wearing PVC trousers or a string vest
4)People who have got "such a headache" every time you speak to them, and the "stupid doctors" can't work it out
5)People who "just can't talk about it- no, don't make me! I can't tell you, it's too horrible"
6) Girls that tell their male friends that their boyfriend is a bastard, and then get them to start on him- only to declare undying love for him a few moments after the drama has subsided
"Ignore Shaz in her stupid PVC trousers and string vest. She thinks she's pregnant again. Fucking headline grabber"

"Look at those emo kids with their trendy arm slashes. Headline grabbers; let's hiss at them!"
Headline Grabber by MagickDio March 15, 2010

Banner Headline 

Large text indicating the story of the article below. Typically articles unrelated to the main article are contained within the banner headline.
"Ugh, what's that behind your hand there?"
"Oh, that's an unrelated article"
"An unrelated article?"
<nods>
"...within the banner headline?"
"Yes"

like a deer in the headlines 

The facial expression we have come to know - panic-stricken, wide-eyed and immobilized, not knowing which way to run, realizing that your crimes, sins and errors of judgement are suddenly America's number one topic.
The movie mogul had figured no one would ever talk, and if they did, who would believe them, yet here he stood, cameras on him from all sides, barraged by shouting reporters, like a deer in the headlines.