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front
verb- in jazz or popular music, to be a band leader, or lead singer of a band US, 1936
- [Jonathan] Maitland plays the guitar while the delightfully named Jackie Collins fronts the band on vocals. — The Guardian, 1 February 2002
- to lie; to project a false image of yourself US, 1993
- And everyone is observing, but they’re all fronting. They don’t want to show anyone they’re cowards. — John Gimenez, Up Tight!, p. 38, 1967
- — Washington Post, 14 October 1993
- And if you want to be there, in that club, The Society of Big-Dicked Agents, then you gotta front like you belong. — John Ridley, Everybody Smokes in Hell, p. 33, 1999
- to show up; to make an appearance AUSTRALIA, 1968
- [T]hey’d call the cops if I fronted[.] — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 7, 1970
- It took Phil two days to pluck up the guts to front, but he walked in and mum met him with a cheerful “Hello, Phil”. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 115, 1979
- — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 31, 1987
- to confront someone AUSTRALIA, 1945
- — Peter Corris, Make Me Rich, p. 37, 1985
- I had been there and done that myself and so justice was tempered with mercy; “Will you front the Boss? or would you perhaps volunteer for some extra duty time in which you can repent of your sinfulness.” — Martin Cameron, A Look at the Bright Side, 1988
- To hassle someone, or to want to fight someone. — Scape Martinez, Graf!, p. 125, 2009
- to appear before a court AUSTRALIA, 1941
- He fronted on three busts. — (Prisoner) 35 The Argot, 1950
- to provide something of value to someone with the expectation of being paid later US
- Various terms are employed to descrie this: suppliers may say they give cocaine “on credit” or as a “loan” to distributors; at all levels, it is called “fronting.” — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 34, 1989
- to back down from a physical confrontation US
- — Carsten Stroud, Close Pursuit, p. 272, 1987
- to pretend, to fake US
- So don’t front like you don’t know what my name is[.] — Akinyele Checkmate, 1993
- to vouch for US
- I was glad to have a convict with Connie’s prestige “front” for me with the general population[.] — Donald Wilson, My Six Convicts, p. 26, 1951
▶ front an air biscuit
to pretend innocence of generating a guilty fart UK- — The A-Z of Rude Health, 18 January 2002
▶ front it
to face up to a difficult problem or situation; hence, to leave a Vulnerable Prisoners’ Unit and return to the main prison UK- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 53, 1996
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