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
They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scarehead editor, well aware of his sheet's reputation, said: "We could not afford to print such a piece of inventive lunacy."
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
Well, from all I could hear he did; for there wa’n’t any scarehead financial story in the papers, and I guess the bank snarl must have been straightened out all right.
From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford
