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feet-first

UK/fiːt.fɜːst/US/fiːt.fɝst/

feet-first is the alternative spelling of feet first.

Meaning of feet first

Adverb

feet first (not comparable)

  1. With the feet preceding the rest of the body.
    Synonyms:
    footling, footling breech
    Antonyms:
    head first
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic) In the manner of a deceased person (i.e., dead).
    • "If that door opens and any one of you cusses lets on there's anything unusual, right here and then I sure start plugging. They ain't a soul'll get out the room except feet first."1910, Jack London, chapter 4, in Burning Daylight

Antonyms of feet-first

Questions about feet-first

What is feet-first the alternative spelling of?
Feet-first is the alternative spelling of feet first.
How do you pronounce feet-first?
Feet-first is pronounced /fiːt.fɜːst/ (UK).

Words near feet-first in the dictionary

  1. feet first
  2. feet of clay
  3. feet on the ground
  4. feet per second
  5. feet wet
  6. feet-first
  7. feetage
  8. feetages
  9. feetball
  10. feete
  11. feeted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: feet-first (page history and authors); feet first (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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