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drop line

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Noun1.drop line - a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right
dropline, stagger head, staggered head, stephead, stepped line
headline, newspaper headline - the heading or caption of a newspaper article


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The drop line lightly in his hand, He sits on a bench in the dark.
Fishing with the Ghosts of Winter by Rawson, Eric / Commonweal
For bait fishing: A light egg sinker with an appropriate hook for surface applications, and a trolling drop line with a high-quality single or treble hook.
'YAK ATTACK\Coming close to the action isn't a problem when you fish ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Being Irish, I think it's important always to have a few really good reasons to be depressed--otherwise you'll start feeling good about stuff, and when you do that, you know the cosmos is going to put out the drop line on you: the disposal will back up, the pilot light in the furnace will go inexplicably out, you'll get a solicitation in the mail from the Psychic Friends Network, whatever.
Seinfeld by McConnell, Frank / Commonweal
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