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

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

"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

Pratt's wealth, my connection, with an institution, insures a tremendous scare-head.

From The Tyranny of the Dark by Garland, Hamlin