English Explanatory Dictionary

frontlash

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

frontlash frontlashes

Etymology

Blend of front + backlash, coined by US president Lyndon B. Johnson with regard to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The word is still mainly used in reference to that Act.

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