Definition of "scarehead" in English

noun

1. An alarming or sensational headline.

   • 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.

verb

1. To write an alarming or sensational headline about.