a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
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a long flag; often tapering
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long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
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Streamer \Stream"er\, n. 1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. --Dryden.
3. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. --Macaulay.
While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. --Lowell.
3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.
4. (Journalism) a banner. [PJC]
Southeast sent up a plane trailing a streamer that urged shoppers to drive another half mile south; the Virginians told customers the plane was their own.
The News-Free Press has a conservative editorial policy and a style that includes a standard streamer headline on the front page and many photographs.
The Panama campaign streamer was the 169th ribbon affixed to the Army flag; the 13th for the Marine flag; the 19th for the Navy and the 78th for the Air Force.