(archaic) Something that inspires fear but presents no real danger.

plural of scare-bug

Alternative form of scarebug

plural of scare-sleep

plural of red scare

plural of lavender scare

(slang, idiomatic) To scare or startle someone thoroughly.

(slang, transitive) To terrify thoroughly.

(idiomatic) To frighten someone very much.

(historical) A period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left extremism, including but not limited to Bolshevism, socialism, and anarchism.