Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A group of words, often originating in popular culture, that is spontaneously popularized after widespread repeated use
- n. A signature phrase of a particular person or group.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a phrase that has become a catchword
Etymologies
- From catch + phrase. Of the notion that the phrase will catch in the mind of the user. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Elisabeth Mason: There's a news station in New York whose catchphrase is "Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world.”
The Huffington Post: Greatest Person Of The Day: Elisabeth Mason, CEO and Co-Founder of Single Stop
“Still, misappropriation of a catchphrase is misappropriation of a catchphrase, and three years later, I'm pleased to report that Hilton, who trademarked the phrase "That's hot!" in 2004 (yes, yes she did), has settled her half-million dollar lawsuit out of court, claiming that the company was "wilful, malicious and oppressive" and "invaded [her] right to privacy".”
“June 9th, 2009 LONDON - Homer Simpson's classical abuse 'd'oh' has been voted as a favourite catchphrase from a children's TV programme in a brand brand brand new poll.”
“First, the fictional mammal released his autobiography; now "simples!", his catchphrase from the comparethemarket. com advert, has made it into the Collins English Dictionary.”
The Guardian: Simples! Aleksandr the Meerkat gives the dictionary his word
“Robert Kaplan notes that the current military catchphrase is boots on the ground.”
“The nicest bad translation I read (if that isn't an oxymoron) was of a catchphrase from a UK TV gameshow, where the lugubrious host used to say to the losers, "Come and have a look at what you would have won.”
“And as #3 stated, if you think that that catchphrase is funny, then you obviously know nothing about comedy and that explains why you would like this garbage in the first place.”
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“The current catchphrase is boots on the ground; in the future it could be hulls in the water.”
“Update: Dan created these motivational postcards modelled on my favorite catchphrase from the geek sit-com The IT Crowd.”
“I coined the catchphrase New Asia (before the Singapore Tourism Board took the phrase and ran a marketing campaign with it).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘catchphrase’.
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Language
word, sentence, novel, book, novella, vignette, memoir, anthology, paragraph, stanza, poem, haiku and 123 more...
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Five Consecutive Consonants
A list of words containing five consecutive consonants
I do not include words containing "y" as part of the 5-letter string, since that letter invariably functions as a vowel, as in rhythm. <...heartstricken, heartstruck, wellspring, offspring, yachtsman, worthwhile, backstretch, backstroke, downstream, downstroke, breaststroke, birthstone and 188 more...
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Curiosities
A Potpourri
progeny, ooh, meow, endearing, timepiece, touch of the crea..., meh, alarmist, taut, calligraphic, catchphrase, shinto and 6 more...
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Killjoy et al
Namely, compounds consisting of a verb with a direct object immediately after it, without inflection
killjoy, lickspigot, quakebuttock, throttlebottom, scattergood, scapegrace, swillbowl, tosspot, breakfast, cutthroat, pickpocket, dreadnought and 84 more...
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excelsior
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior! - Longfellowwood shavings, lofty, heights, motto, 24 lines to the inch, falchion, spectral glaciers, falling star, Cinclodes excelsior, hornero, Paracelsus, parcels and 18 more...
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Hoptoads
Compounds nouns that follow the pattern "verb subject" ("x that ys" or "x who ys"). See madmouth's Killjoy et al for verb-object compounds.
hoptoad, playboy, callgirl, drivetrain, pitchfork, flyboy, skipjack, catchweed, drawboy, chargeman, rentboy, catchphrase and 3 more...
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Six Consecutive Consonants
List of words such as catchphrase containing six consecutive consonants.
bergschrund, Brennschluss, catchphrase, lightstruck, sightscreen, watchspring, weltschmerz, festschrift, latchstring, Eschscholtzia, sightscreens, watchsprings and 1 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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barnaby's Words
coccyx, procrastination, bollocks, mufti, meme, paraphernalia, endomorph, millpond, cheesecake, pterodactyl, cheesecloth, ethnographic and 34 more...
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Best of weirdnet
buttocks, peeler, mum, sweets, tree, auld, bowery, pynchon, horror-stricken, and, tatou, scarf and 37 more...
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buy a vowel
strengths, catchphrase, festschrift, borschts, watchstrap, weltschmerz, nightshirt, eighthly, knightsbridge, chthonic, phthisis
Tweets
Looking for tweets for catchphrase.
fbharjo six consecutive consonants (excluding y). There are only a few. Dec 27, 2010
reesetee Weirdnet! Aug 20, 2008