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View synonyms for running head

running head

noun

, Printing.
  1. a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.


running head

noun

  1. printing a heading printed at the top of every page or every other page of a book
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of running head1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

“We were just a tick out of position, Arenado got a running head start,” Cash said.

“I got to start 15, 20 yards back and just get a running head start and just hit people,” he said.

“We better enter 2020 with a running head start on earnings because there certainly was not much last year,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Cresset Capital Management in Chicago.

From Reuters

I mean, running against, you know, being in political opposition to, say, John Kerry in Massachusetts is a very different thing than running head to head against Donald Trump.

A week out from the combine, though, he has not clocked an official 40-yard dash, only working on the 10-second and 20-second intervals and a “flying 40” that allows him a running head start.

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