headfirst

Etymology

From head + first.

adv

  1. With the head in front; headlong.
  2. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; hastily.
    Sheffield was not going to stop being Sheffield just because he had dived headfirst into the lusts of the flesh. 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 245

adj

  1. With the head in front; headlong.

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