frontlash

[ fruhnt-lash ]

noun

1. an action or opinion that is in reaction to a backlash.

Word History and Origins

Origin of frontlash¹

1965–70; front + lash ¹, modeled on backlash

Example Sentences

As a TV critic and outsider to the frontlash and backlash, it feels a bit like trying to discuss “Girls” back in the day without everything becoming about people’s briefs for or against Lena Dunham.

From New York Times

Whether we call it backlash or "frontlash," underneath all of it is fear among white people about their standing at the top of the social hierarchy.

From Salon

“The force of the backlash is in some ways a tribute to the success of the frontlash,” she says.

From Time

“If we hadn’t had a frontlash, we wouldn’t have a backlash,” she explains, adding that Trump supporters are overwhelmingly white and male, and “resentful because they feel privilege has been taken away from them.”

From Time

New Jersey: Incumbent Harrison A. Williams Jr., 44, the state's first Democratic Senator since 1936, expects to profit from an anti-Barry "frontlash" in his second-term bid.

From Time Magazine Archive