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head-on

[hed-on, -awn]
–adjective
1. (of two objects) meeting with the fronts or heads foremost: a head-on collision.
2. facing the direction of forward motion or alignment; frontal.
3. characterized by direct opposition: a head-on confrontation.
–adverb
4. with the front or head foremost, esp. in a collision: She stepped out of the front door and walked head-on into her husband.

Origin:
1830–40, Americanism
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