Usually means: Leading with the head forward.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word head first:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. head first: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. head-first: Wordnik
  3. head-first, head first: Wiktionary
  4. Head First (Badfinger album), Head First (Goldfrapp album), Head First (The Babys album), Head First (Uriah Heep album), Head First (book series), Head First (film), Head First, Head-first: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. head-first: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. head first: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Head-first: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Head-first: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Head-first: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Head-first: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. head first: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (head first)

▸ adverb:  With the head first or foremost.

Similar:
head-first, headfirst, headlong, facefirst, nose-first, head-on, palmwise, headstrongly, headlongly, tailwise, more...

Opposite:
feet first, backwards, tail first

Phrases:
go in head first, dove head first, more...

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↻From "Mint Car (Radio Mix)" by The Cure:

The sun is up, I'm so fizzy I could burst
Yeah, you wet through and me headfirst
1 of 6 verses


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Similar:
head-first, headfirst, headlong, facefirst, nose-first, head-on, palmwise, headstrongly, headlongly, tailwise, more...

Opposite:
feet first, backwards, tail first

Phrases:
go in head first, dove head first, more...



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