head-first

See also: headfirst and head first

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /hɛd.fɜːst/
  • (US) IPA(key): /hɛd.fɝst/

Adverb

head-first (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of headfirst

Quotations

  • 1884, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, chapter 7:
    I shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.
  • 1887, Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno, chapter 2:
    'He must be able to spring from the floor to about twice his own height, gradually turning over as he rises, so as to come down again head first.'

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Antonyms

Adjective

head-first (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of headfirst

References

  • The Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; online version November 2010. Link. Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1896.
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