English

frontlash

Blend of front + backlash, coined by US president Lyndon B.

Latin frōns ‘forehead’

Old French front ‘forehead’

Middle English front

English front

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Blend of front + backlash, coined by US president Lyndon B. The word is still mainly used in reference to that Act.

noun A swell of support for a proposal that counters any backlash.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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