frontwards
Britishadverb
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Ariela said, “What’s she’s doing is programming it to play music and to go frontwards and backwards.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2017
Lead by example as a football player, as the quarterback: to know the plan frontwards, backwards; be able to answer; know my guys; convince them I was ready and would give it my best.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2012
It felt a lot better going out frontwards instead of sneaking out backwards.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
The writer's own troop, manning Fort Ward, a few miles out from Alexandria, stood to its heavy guns every moment of that dismal night, gazing frontwards for a foe.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders by John Lord
At that moment Squinty looked up, as he often did, with one eye partly closed, the other open, and with one ear cocked frontwards, and the other backwards.
From Squinty the Comical Pig His Many Adventures by Richard Barnum
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