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rear one's ugly head

rear one's ugly head is the alternative form of rear one's head.

Meaning of rear one's head

Verb

rear one's head (third-person singular simple present rears one's head, present participle rearing one's head, simple past and past participle reared one's head)

  1. (literally) To raise one's head.
  2. (idiomatic) To appear and cause problems or stress, especially at an inopportune time (said of something or [rare] someone that is undesirable or unwelcome).
    • One problem that reared its head in 1983 would prove more difficult to solve, with the heat that summer leading to a number of engine failures.2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 53

Forms of rear one's ugly head

third-person singular presentrears one's ugly head
present participlerearing one's ugly head
past participlereared one's ugly head
pastreared one's ugly head

Questions about rear one's ugly head

What is rear one's ugly head the alternative form of?
Rear one's ugly head is the alternative form of rear one's head.

Words near rear one's ugly head in the dictionary

  1. rear light
  2. rear lights
  3. rear naked choke
  4. rear naked chokes
  5. rear one's head
  6. rear one's ugly head
  7. rear projection
  8. rear projections
  9. rear up
  10. rear view
  11. rear vision mirror

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