"head first" meaning in English

See head first in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: /hɛd.fɜːst/ [UK], /hɛd.fɝst/ [US] Forms: more head first [comparative], most head first [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adv}} head first (comparative more head first, superlative most head first)
  1. With the head first or foremost. Synonyms: headlong, head-first
    Sense id: en-head_first-en-adv-WTxN-9z~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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        {
          "word": "feet first"
        }
      ],
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        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 48:",
          "text": "I shot head first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “L’Amie Inconnue”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 25:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "With the head first or foremost."
      ],
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          "head",
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        ],
        [
          "first",
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        ],
        [
          "foremost",
          "foremost"
        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "headlong"
        },
        {
          "word": "head-first"
        }
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      "ipa": "/hɛd.fɜːst/",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "ipa": "/hɛd.fɝst/",
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    },
    {
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        "superlative"
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  ],
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          "first",
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      ],
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        {
          "word": "headlong"
        }
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  ],
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      "tags": [
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    },
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