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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Head-on" Quotes from Famous Books

... trying to rein to one side with unskilled hands, and then the wagons met. Colonel Ward's wagon stood like a rock. The lighter vehicle, locking wheels, went down with a crash, and Cap'n Sproul shot head-on over the dasher into his brother-in-law's lap, as he crouched on ...

— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day

... reported Dan, answering the excited pleadings and questions from Rough Rock. "It won't be a head-on crash. I may even miss entirely.... Oh, Lord! Not with that spire of rock sticking up from it.... I'm going to hit ...

— Shipwreck in the Sky • Eando Binder

... rifle, and the flash of it spurted for an instant across the road, like a sheet of lightning. And, just as lightning might, it showed an instantaneous vision of a tired gray horse, foam-flecked and furiously ridden, pounding down the road head-on. The vision was blotted by the night again before any one could see who rode the horse, or what his weapons were—if any—or form a theory as to why ...

— Told in the East • Talbot Mundy