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scare-head

scare-head is the alternative form of scarehead.

Meaning of scarehead

Noun

scarehead (plural scareheads)

  1. An alarming or sensational headline.
    • If then he makes a scarehead of it, and gets in three columns of space and as many photographs, it is his just reward.1910, Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat

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Forms of scare-head

pluralscare-heads

Questions about scare-head

What is scare-head the alternative form of?
Scare-head is the alternative form of scarehead.

Words near scare-head in the dictionary

  1. scare-bugs
  2. scare-crow
  3. scare-crowed
  4. scare-crowing
  5. scare-crows
  6. scare-head
  7. scare-heads
  8. scare-line
  9. scare-lines
  10. scare-quote
  11. scare-quotes

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