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Head-on

adjective

Characterized by direct opposition.

Meeting front to front. Synonym: frontal. "A head-on collision"

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"Head-on" Quotes from Famous Books

... sides about 45 years ago by jumping from train in a terrible head-on collision. I bought all kinds of trusses and spent considerable money. Then I got a Cluthe Truss and can now do any work in safety. You are a benefactor of mankind. I had to give up my regular work on train before using ...

— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured • Chas. Cluthe & Sons

... rather more than she bargained for since the sea cow, in an effort to get rid of the rope that was twisted about its flipper, turned about with a swirl in the water, not unlike that made by the propeller of a motor boat, and came head-on for the ...

— The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms - Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida • Laura Lee Hope

... it was a head-on collision, two boys riding at each other round a corner, as if for a wager. The young doctor had patched them both up, there being no broken bones, only a dislocated shoulder and many bruises, and ...

— Geoffrey Strong • Laura E. Richards

... sterner mood in a head-on collision, so that for a moment the impulsive speech failed ...

— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al

Words linked to "Head-on" : frontal, hostile, front