dek

Etymology 1

Deliberate misspelling of deck, to distinguish the word as not belonging in the story.

noun

  1. (journalism, slang) The subhead of a news story.

Etymology 2

From decimal.

num

  1. The cardinal number occurring after nine and before el in a duodecimal system. Written ↊, decimal value 10.

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