right-about-facing
right-about-facing is the present participle and gerund of right-about-face.
Meaning of right-about-face
Verb
right-about-face (third-person singular simple present right-about-faces, present participle right-about-facing, simple past and past participle right-about-faced)
- Synonym of about-face.
- So we right-about-faced and started back again, stumbling as if we were boozed, slipping, puffing, splashing, and bespattering ourselves. One of the boys cried to me through the wind and rain: 'We'll go back with you as far as your home, all the same. As we've nowhere to go we've plenty of time.'1930, Henri Barbusse, “On Leave”, in Great First World War Stories, London: Chancellor Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 470
- Synonyms:
- about-face
Questions about right-about-facing
- What is right-about-facing the present participle and gerund of?
- Right-about-facing is the present participle and gerund of right-about-face.
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