catchcry

English

Etymology

From catch +‎ cry.

Noun

catchcry (plural catchcries)

1. A slogan, particularly one intended for mass repetition.
   • 1918, Arkady Joseph Sack, The Birth of the Russian Democracy‎, page 528:

     Monotonous, frequently quite incomprehensible to the dark mass, these catchcries filled the columns of all the papers born as the offspring of the Pravda and German gold; they acted like a curse, rousing, infuriating, confusing the more sincere and the more honest.

Related terms

• catchphrase
• catchword