scare-head
noun
a headline in exceptionally large type.
scarehead,
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a variation of
scare-head.
Example Sentences
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Shying off the scarehead name of Romanoff, he posed as a Fox Film Co. executive.
From Time Magazine Archive
To take expensive pains to give newspapers accurate medical intelligence and then to have papers garble & scarehead an announcement was the heart sickening experience of New York doctors last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the war's beginning no week has passed without scarehead rumors and wishful guesses as to the state of the world's oil supply.
From Time Magazine Archive
With World War II it was surer than shellfire that somebody would brush the dust off this old scarehead.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a crude and flimsy affair, with its name, in scarehead letters, "WAR SURE."
From The Harbor by Ernest Poole
