sound bite

1. 1.

   a very short speech; usually on radio or television

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Questions about sound bite

What does sound bite mean?

sound bite means "a very short speech; usually on radio or television".

Is sound bite a common word?

sound bite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.