head first
Pronunciation Adverb
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Pronunciation Adverb
head first
- With the head#Noun|head first or foremost.
- Synonyms: headlong
- Antonyms: feet first
- 1884 December 9, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182 ↗, page 48 ↗:
- I shot head first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.
- 1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “L’Amie Inconnue”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., OCLC 156194182 ↗, page 25 ↗:
- 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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