headfirst
adjEtymology From head + first.
1
With the head in front; headlong.
headfirst
advEtymology From head + first.
1
With the head in front; headlong.
2
Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; hastily.
- Sheffield was not going to stop being Sheffield just because he had dived headfirst into the lusts of the flesh.2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 245:
- Over the past two years, Silicon Valley’s leaders and investors — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in weapons and war — have plunged headfirst into the military industrial complex.2025 August 4, Sheera Frenkel, “The Militarization of Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025:
- Synonyms
- headforemost, headlong