comic strip

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ˈcom•ic ˌstrip, n. [countable]

1. Journalism a sequence of drawings telling or showing a comic incident, an adventure, etc., often appearing in daily newspapers.

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com′ic strip′, 

1. Journalism a sequence of drawings, either in color or black and white, relating a comic incident, an adventure or mystery story, etc., often serialized, typically having dialogue printed in balloons, and usually printed as a horizontal strip in daily newspapers and in an uninterrupted block or longer sequence of such strips in Sunday newspapers and in comic books.

• 1915–20, American.

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comic strip noun

1. a sequence of drawings in a newspaper, magazine, etc, relating a humorous story or an adventure
   Also called: strip cartoon