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verb

  1. tr to pay (money) at the beginning of a business arrangement
  2. to give one's best effort, esp in a physical contest

    we have to front up in the scrum if we want to beat the All Blacks

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The sheriff and his deputies had been in front up to this time, but they now took a position in rear of the two companies.

At the time they charged bayonets, the rear crowd shoved the front up—they were shoving them up.

The whole army now wheeled its front up the left wing of its centre, moving its right wing forward at the same time.

He wont front up to me so plumb confident an gala after Ive killed Bat Masterson.

Yes, there stood the lodge on the opposite side and a well understood mark leading from the open water in front up into the bush.

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