front wall

front wall

In racquetball, the wall that the ball must be bounced off of at the start of the game, and before each subsequent hit by a player. I enjoy racquetball, but I'm not able to hit the ball off the front wall every time I swing.
See also: front, wall
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bounce off
  • bounce off (of) (someone or something)
  • bounce something off of someone
  • bounce something off someone
  • bounce back
  • bounce along
  • bounce around
  • enjoy your meal
  • bounce out
  • buckets
References in classic literature
The latter is a very large, bright, clean, cheerful apartment with three windows in it, and a partition-wall which, running outwards from the front wall, makes a sort of little den, a sort of extra room, for myself.
Poor Folk
No one was in sight, yet immediately we passed the first door it slid gently into place behind us and receded rapidly to its original position in the front wall of the building.
Princess of Mars
tear down the fence!" Then there was a racket of ripping and tearing and smashing, and down she goes, and the front wall of the crowd begins to roll in like a wave.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
All around the circular space were built rock houses, set close together, each with a door in the front wall. None of these houses was more than six feet wide, but the Scoodlers were thin people sidewise and did not need much room.
The Road to Oz
The pilgrims took down portions of the front wall for specimens, as is their honored custom, and then we departed.
The Innocents Abroad
A stretch of two hundred yards of the high front wall was heavily draped with ivy, and out of the mass of buildings within rose three picturesque old towers.
Tramp Abroad
You can't pass your opponent if he is in the deep court, and it's very difficult to kill the ball into a corner if he is standing up close to the front wall.
Offensive success governed by selection, execution of high-percentage shots
A small hole was blown in a front wall, windows were shattered.
3 held over bomb and gun attacks; CRIME
The driver hit two cars, a lamp post, demolished her front wall and rested at her front window, shattering a double glazed pane of glass in her porch.
OAP's lucky bus escape; CRASH: Driver ploughs through Jean's garden
n Bricks being kicked out of his front wall n Bricks being kicked out of his front wall.
Pensioner in fear
The sixteenth-century wall at the back was retained, but the front wall which had no foundations and was of relatively recent construction, was demolished.
FRAGILE STATE
The youths fear for their lives after ramming a stolen car into the front wall of the Ford's Road building where Republican Tom Williams was arrested 55 years ago.
Joyriders flee after ramming IRA house
This isn't a problem when the ball travels to the front wall and rebounds straight to the back wall without angling toward a side wall.
Pre-shoot position vital to post-shot satisfaction
A PENSIONER had a miraculous escape yesterday when a car crashed through his front wall and into his home.
'THAT'S THE SIXTH TIME A CAR HAS CRASHED INTO MY FRONT DOOR' Council told scared pensioner he'd have to build any crash barrier himself at blackspot
The restaurant was evacuated as police and fire crews cordoned off the damaged front wall.
Diners' lucky escape