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

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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

When the reporters in my own town found out that Ransom was a second cousin of mine, I was put into a scare-head for the only time in my life.

From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Booth Tarkington

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 George Francis Train

He negatived the Press Agent's suggestion to make a scare-head story of the escape for the papers, and suggested that they should go up and hear Madam Morelli's account of it.

From Side Show Studies by Oliver Herford

"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 Marion Polk Angellotti

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