scare-head

American  

[skair-hed] / ˈskɛərˌhɛd /

Rarely scare headline or scarehead,

noun

Journalism.

1. a headline in exceptionally large type.

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Etymology

Origin of scare-head

First recorded in 1885–90; scare + head

Example Sentences

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scare-head

The sidewalks were filled with agitated pedestrians fluttering scare-head newspapers under their noses.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an instant the scare-head was created: "Boston as English as a muffin!"

From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Bennett, Arnold

It told the whole story, like a "scare-head" in a "yellow" newspaper.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis

"War Scandal Bursts in France," "Scion of Oldest Noblesse Implicated," "Duke Mysteriously Missing," I read in the diminishing degrees of the scare-head type.

From The Firefly of France by Angellotti, Marion Polk

If I say so, he'll scare-head you as a faker—in letters all across the front page.

From The Professor's Mystery by Hastings, Wells