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headstart en · NOUN

Etymology

From head + start.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of head start.
    alt of head start
    • Some of the outrage is no doubt deserved—I have no patience for bigots myself, […] As a presumed lifetime beneficiary of demographic headstarts, I’m often implicated by definition myself, a situation I can live with. But I rarely entertain an urge to either pile on or argue back. 2016, Chuck Eddy, “’10s”, in Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 244:

Forms

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headstarts Number=Plur lexicographic