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[head-on]
{adj.} or {adv. phr.} 1. With the head or front pointingat; with the front
facing; front end to front end.
Our car skiddedinto a head-on crash with the
truck.
In the fog the boat ranhead-on into a log.
There is a head-on
view of the parade from ourhouse.
Compare: FACE-TO-FACE. Contrast: REAR-END. 2.
In a way that isexactly opposite; against or opposed to in argument.
If you
think arule should be changed, a head-on attack against it is best.
Tomdid
not want to argue head-on what the teacher said, so he
saidnothing.
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