"throwaway panel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: throwaway panel [Alt: Sunday comic strip panel layout [canonical], designed to fill a third of a newspaper page.] The same comic with the throwaway panels removed [canonical], filling a third of a newspaper page. [canonical], throwaway panels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} throwaway panel (plural throwaway panels)
  1. (comics) A panel in the top row of a Sunday strip, intended to be inessential so it can be removed to save space.
    Sense id: en-throwaway_panel-en-noun-yDPL9hjE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Comics Topics: comics, literature, media, publishing

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