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feetfirst en · ADJ

Etymology

From feet + first.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) With one's feet going first.
    • On the feetfirst top-top with a 19-inch hole, your body is tilted to about a 35-degree angle on entry. 1965, United States. 6570th Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories, AMRL-TR. - Issue 65, page 22:

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headfirst

feetfirst en · ADV

Etymology

From feet + first.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) With one's feet going first.
    • When we are still worried about our lack of experience and ability to swim, we jump in feetfirst. 2012, Dottie Escobedo-Frank, ReStart Your Church, →ISBN, page 90:
    • So DeCamilli, sliding feetfirst, undercuts the Bomber and sends him sliding into the wall. 1988 December 9, Ben Joravsky, “No-Ice Hockey”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016: