lede
/liːd
/(also lead)
noun US
The opening sentence or paragraph of a news article, summarizing the most important aspects of the story: the lede has been rewritten and the headline changed...
- Give me the paragraph; give me the lede.
- You gotta hook your reader with the lede to keep him reading.
- Just underneath the lede was a Tokyo dateline analysis story with a very different angle.
Phrases
bury the lede
Origin
1950s: alteration of lead1, first used in instructions to printers, in order to distinguish the word from text to be printed.
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