Word.ws English Dictionary

front off

front off verb: to confront, bully or disrespect (someone); to square up for a fight; to intimidate (someone) into doing something (often leaving); to show off in front of someone.

Verb

front off (third-person singular simple present fronts off, present participle fronting off, simple past and past participle fronted off)

  1. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To confront, bully or disrespect (someone); to square up for a fight; to intimidate (someone) into doing something (often leaving); to show off in front of someone.
  2. (slang, transitive) To embarrass (someone) by revealing information about them.

Forms of front off

third-person singular presentfronts off
present participlefronting off
past participlefronted off
pastfronted off

Questions about front off

What does front off mean?
Front off means to confront, bully or disrespect (someone); to square up for a fight; to intimidate (someone) into doing something (often leaving); to show off in front of someone.
What part of speech is front off?
Front off is a verb.
What is the past tense of front off?
The past tense of front off is fronted off.

Words near front off in the dictionary

  1. front nine
  2. front nines
  3. front of house
  4. front of mind
  5. front of the house
  6. front off
  7. front office
  8. front offices
  9. front on
  10. front oneself off
  11. front organization

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: front off (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “front off.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/front_off. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.