stop press

1 of 2

noun

chiefly British

: a space or column in a newspaper containing last-minute news items usually printed from a fudge

hadn't seen anything in the stop press or the early papers

—Christopher Bush

stop-press

2 of 2

adjective

1

: made or inserted while a printing press is stopped in the course of a run

a stop-press alteration

a stop-press correction

2

: of up-to-the-minute significance or interest : timely

many a worthy book of scholarship might be all the better for … relating itself to the stop-press facts of life

—James Cameron

Word History

Etymology

Noun

stop entry 1 + press

Adjective

stop entry 1 + press

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