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scare-head

or ²õ³¦²¹°ù±ð·³ó±ð²¹»å, scare head

[ skair-hed ]

noun

Journalism.
  1. a headline in exceptionally large type. Compare screamer ( def 4 ).


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of scare-head1

First recorded in 1885–90; scare + head
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Example Sentences

It told the whole story, like a "scare-head" in a "yellow" newspaper.

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If I say so, he'll scare-head you as a faker—in letters all across the front page.

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But taking a hard look at the whole problem of insuring security without bringing on sterility, the Times editorialized: In the six weeks since he charged theState Department with harboring "57 card-carrying Communists," Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had reaped whole scrapbooks full of scare-head publicity.

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

Why, he had the Ortmeyer-Rawlins wedding fixed out with a scare-head THE WAY OF ALL FLESH!

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