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adjective

head-on adj.

Characterized by direct opposition; as, a head-on confrontation.

Synonyms: head-to-head.

Without evasion or compromise; as, his usual head-on fashion; to meet a problem head-on.

Synonyms: downright, flat-footed, forthright, foursquare, straightforward.

Meeting front to front; used mostly of collisions between vehicles; as, a head-on automobile collision.

Synonyms: frontal.

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Etymology of 'Head-on'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Head-on" Quotes from Famous Books

... keeps on," drawled Jock, "she'll have a head-on collision with herself some day. Is that the dying shriek of ...

— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock

... obliged to pole their canoes far up beyond the point at which they meant to land; then, at the word, they swung into the rushing current and pulled like fiends for the opposite shore. Their broad paddles dipped so rapidly they resembled paddle-wheels. They kept the craft head-on to the current, and did not attempt to charge the bank directly, but swung-to broadside. In this way they led our horses safely across, and came ...

— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland

... slave, giving him rendezvous for the next morning,—he had pleaded in vain for that evening,—and he was composing himself to a thoughtful promenade, and to the building of air-castles of which the other occupant was Little Miss Grouch, when he became aware of a prospective head-on collision. He side-stepped. The approaching individual did the same. He sheered off to port. The other followed. In desperation he made a plunge to starboard and was checked at ...

— Little Miss Grouch - A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's - Maiden Transatlantic Voyage • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... Tetuahunahuna, waist-deep in the water at our stern, gave a mighty push, and we were safely afloat as he clambered over the edge and stood dripping on the steersman's tiny perch, while the men, holding the boat head-on to the rolling waves, drove us safely ...

— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... were now within a mile of each other, and almost head-on. The drab boat, about two miles away, had altered its course so as to pick up the freighter ...

— The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless - The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise • H. Irving Hancock

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