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

In the immediate sense, the Age of Trump is the White backlash and White frontlash to President Obama, the country's first black president.

From Salon

Looking at the white backlash and white frontlash, the rolling back of decades of progress along the color line, I have been asking myself what year is it really?

From Salon

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