English

Alternative forms

• head first

Adverb

head-first ‎(comparative more head-first, superlative most head-first)

1. With the head first or foremost.

Quotations

• 1884, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, chapter 7:

  I shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.

• 1887, Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno, chapter 2:

  'He must be able to spring from the floor to about twice his own height, gradually turning over as he rises, so as to come down again head first.'

Synonyms

• headlong

Antonyms

• feet-first

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; online version November 2010. Link. Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1896.