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(n.) - An online newspaper which borrows from the magazine industry and shifts to magazine-style writing, design and shorter bites of
information to suit today’s headline-glancing reader.
information to suit today’s headline-glancing reader.
You know, I like reading my daily newspaper online, but I also like these new magapaper news sites, which are a kind of cross between a newspaper and a magazine. Cool!
by PRwiz101 January 24, 2011
Get the magapaper mug."How did I hear this? I heard it on the intervine somewhere! It's gone viral now, everyone's talking
about it!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan, June 25, 2011
about it!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan, June 25, 2011
by PRwiz101 July 19, 2011
Get the intervine mug.(n.) -- a neologism for infelicitously-worded newspaper headlines which at first reading seem to mean one thing but upon second reading mean something completely different; often hard to figure out at first; called "crash blossoms" because one specific headline from a newspaper used the two words -- "crash blossoms" -- in a confusing way
by PRwiz101 August 30, 2009
Get the crash blossoms mug."I am so sick of reading farticle after farticle about this continuing saga of the murdered coed in Seattle. I mean, she's dead. Let it go."
by PRwiz101 September 28, 2009
Get the farticle mug.(n.) - The fact or state of something being at least visible in society, even if not everyone knows about it yet.
"You know, even if nobody has heard of my ideas for safer bike lanes yet, I hope that they can at least achieve a small degree of cameo visibility this century."
-- overheard at a watercooler at a national conference for
designers and inventors in San Francisco
-- overheard at a watercooler at a national conference for
designers and inventors in San Francisco
by PRwiz101 January 17, 2011
Get the cameo visibility mug."I'm used to all the typos in the newspapers these days, but what
really irritates me is when I see a major grypo that neither the
editors nor the proofreaders caught! Whatever happened to correct grammar usage?"
overheard at a watercooler in a newspaper newsroom in Boston, January 23, 2011
really irritates me is when I see a major grypo that neither the
editors nor the proofreaders caught! Whatever happened to correct grammar usage?"
overheard at a watercooler in a newspaper newsroom in Boston, January 23, 2011
by PRwiz101 May 20, 2011
Get the grypo mug.(v.) - to do many things at once, such as talk on your cellphone, work on your computer, watch TV, listen to the stereo, etc., also known by its longer form of "multi-tasking"
"With my new iPhone and E-reader, I can be involved with m-tasking all day long, and I love it!"
-- overhead at a watercool in San Francisco
-- overhead at a watercool in San Francisco
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