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frontlashes

frontlashes is the plural of frontlash.

Meaning of frontlash

Noun

frontlash (plural frontlashes)

  1. A swell of support for a proposal that counters any backlash.
    • In his keynote, John Paul Hudson condemned the "glossy commercialism" of David Goodstein and the Advocate, which he said was part of a gay media "backlash" -- while the anti-gay "frontlash" against gays continues.1977 April 9, John Kyper, “Controversies Spark Maine Gay Symposium”, in Gay Community News, page 3

Questions about frontlashes

What is frontlashes the plural of?
Frontlashes is the plural of frontlash.

Words near frontlashes in the dictionary

  1. frontispiece
  2. frontispieced
  3. frontispieces
  4. frontispiecing
  5. frontlash
  6. frontlashes
  7. frontless
  8. frontlessly
  9. frontlet
  10. frontlets
  11. frontline

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