fudge box (English, noun)
expansion: fudge box (plural fudge boxes)
Senses:
topics: journalism
media
printing
publishing
glosses: A mechanical contrivance into which linotype slugs containing late-breaking news are clamped.
tags: historical
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A small blank area left in a newspaper layout for the insertion of late-breaking news.
tags: broadly
Forms:
form: fudge boxes
tags: plural