catchphrase
nounEtymology
From catch + phrase, from the notion that the phrase will catch in the mind of the user.
Definitions
A repeated expression, often originating in popular culture.
- For Tigger, he created a slight lisp and laugh, crediting his British wife with Tigger's "TTFN" catchprase - "ta-ta for now", itself coming from BBC radio comedy It's That Man Again.
- The former head of BBC comedy claims catchphrases are out of fashion. But as Corporal Jones might say, ‘Don’t panic!’
A signature phrase of a particular person or group.
- Instead, bro country songs string together a formulaic subset of tropes about beer sipping, truck driving, sunglasses wearing, unpaved roads, and tanned girls in shorts, typically building to a predictable catchphrase singsong chorus.
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- synonymsignature phrase
- synonymcatchword
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for catchphrase. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA