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SCARE QUOTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does scare quote mean?
• SCARE QUOTE (noun)
The noun SCARE QUOTE has 1 sense:
1. the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
Familiarity information: SCARE QUOTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("scare quote" is a kind of...):
inverted comma; quotation mark; quote (a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else)
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