attention-getter

noun

plural attention-getters

: something that attracts or demands notice

Another Fox attention-getter has been a graphic that continuously shows the game time, score and quarter in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.

—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 30 Aug. 1994

Word History

First Known Use

1898, in the meaning defined above

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