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Out front   /aʊt frənt/   Listen
Out front

adverb
1.
Leading or ahead in a competition.  Synonyms: ahead, in the lead.  "Ahead by two pawns" , "Our candidate is in the lead in the polls" , "Way out front in the race" , "The advertising campaign put them out front in sales"






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"Out front" Quotes from Famous Books



... crouching, back along the inner wall of the archway. The moon was momentarily behind a cloud. It was black under the arch; and out front it was so dim I could only see the faint blob of Gutierrez's standing figure, and ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various

... of much uneasiness to company and platoon commanders and sergeants as "a weak spot," Bunthrop did what these others, these average good men who had "joined up" freely, who had longed for the end of home training and the transfer "out Front," dared not do. Bunthrop scrambled up the broken bank, seized the gun, swung the sights full to the broad gray target, and opened fire. He kept it going steadily, too, with a sleet of bullets whistling and whipping past him, kept on after a bullet snatched ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)

... all at once it struck me that I hadn't spoke once, an' that he hadn't noticed the trumpet till the woman come in, and then he thought he'd been a-beggin' help of a deef woman. But I hadn't no chance then, an' as soon as she'd picked out the key, she says, "I'll have to let yer out front. It won't do to risk your being seen coming out by ...
— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch

... tip back on his stick, things do even out. No hearty helper had intervened, no snot-nosed, gaping child had twitched his attention, nobody's secretary—pretty of course—had scurried to helpfully knock him down with the door. They were all out front superintending arrival ...
— A Matter of Proportion • Anne Walker

... of Cunningham's nigger, he'll know something. Perhaps we can make him tell. I've sent Charlotte to watch her." He ran to the corner of the veranda. "O Ubbo! Where in the devil is he? O Ubbo! Only a few minutes ago he was talking to her out front. Ubbo! ...
— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly



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