heads-up
Use Heads-up in a sentence
adjective
1.
quick to grasp a situation and take advantage of opportunities; alert; resourceful.
noun
2.
a warning in advance: sending a heads-up to the Pentagon about possible attacks.
Origin:
1945–50
1945–50
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| heads-up | |
adjective | |
| 1. | fully alert and watchful; "played heads-up ball" |
noun | |
| 1. | a warning message; "he sent a heads-up to the District Attorney" |
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Heads-up
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
The software needed to offer heads-up augmented reality is far ahead of the hardware.
His goal is to raise and isolate the fish in the pot with him in a heads-up scenario.
And no more funky monocle attached to a helmet for a heads-up display.
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