head first
advUK /hɛd.fɜːst/ · US /hɛd.fɝst/
1
With the head first or foremost.
- I shot head first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 48:
- He must be able to spring from the floor to about twice his own height, gradually turning over as he rises, so as to come down again head first.1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “L’Amie Inconnue”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 25: