Scarehead

Quick meaning: Scarehead is a noun meaning An alarming or sensational headline.

Meaning

An alarming or sensational headline.

More Meanings

1. To write an alarming or sensational headline about.

Example Sentences

If then he makes a scarehead of it, and gets in three columns of space and as many photographs, it is his just reward.

As soon as my dead body is found the newspapers will want to know why I did it. I'll tell them. And they may scarehead it as much as they like.

1925, Sidney Coe Howard, They Knew What They Wanted (Doubleday, Page and Company), Act III, page 134. Joe sits on the porch rail outside the window perusing the scareheads of an I. W. W. paper.

For sound reasons of literary structure, the Eta Bita Pies had their temporary setbacks, but over the closing scene there always rang out triumphantly that grand, old anthem: "Oh, you've got to be an Eta Bita Pie Or you won't get a scarehead when you die!"

Word Forms

• scareheads
• scareheading
• scareheaded
• scare-head

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scare, scarefest, hair-raiser, astonisher, dreadful, spooking.

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