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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Among them, without a scare-head, in the most modest of type, we read: "England and Germany have declared war."

From With the Allies by Davis, Richard Harding

The captain was laboriously spelling out the scare-head articles by the flickering firelight.

From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Davis, J. Watson

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

It had the usual scare-head, and began by announcing that the White Mail, with General Manager Blank's car Kaskaskia, came in on time, carrying signals for a freight train.

From The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories by Warman, Cy