in-your-face
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adjective Informal.
involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
Origin:
1985–90
1985–90
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| in-your-face | |
| —adj | |
| slang aggressive and confrontational: provocative in-your-face activism | |
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In-your-face
is always a great word to know.
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
Slang Dictionary
in-your-face definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
But the in-your-face hedonistic glamour seemed out of tune with the current mood.
But that is not the main reason that the announced results resound as not only false, but as egregiously in-your-face false.
Even text that is bold, italicized, and underlined all at once doesn't begin to approach the in-your-face chutzpah of all caps.
They endure in-your-face barking rants in the middle of the night or are startled awake by the routine hacking of hairballs.
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