SCARE QUOTE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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)

Credits