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tip of the spear en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The foremost person or group; those on the front lines.
    • Bannon called Argentina “the tip of the tip of the spear of the fight for the Judeo-Christian west”. 2024 December 10, Tom Phillips, Facundo Iglesia, quoting Steve Bannon, “Maga on the River Plate as global populist right descends on Argentina”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
  2. The leading position of someone in a difficult situation.
    • In this and similar theorizing of criminal-justice reform, Simonson draws the focus of reform advocates to the tip of the spear—police administration. 2021, Trevor George Gardner, “By Any Means: A Philosophical Frame for Rulemaking Reform in Criminal Law”, in Yale Law Journal Forum, page 803: