screamer

1. n. a newspaper headline.

□ Did you see the screamer in the paper today? “The King Died.”

□ I never read screamers.

2. n. an exclamation point. (Printing.)

□ Put a screamer at the end of the line.

□ Clean up this copy. There are too many screamers. Looks like junior high stuff.

3. n. anything challenging.

□ What a horrible assignment I got. A classic screamer.

□ Bring on the screamers. I can handle anything.

4. n. someone or something very exciting or attention getting.

□ This guy is a real screamer! Wait’ll you meet him.

□ Her political campaign is a real screamer.