Usually means: Aggressively confrontational or provocative manner.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word in your face:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. in-your-face, in your face: Merriam-Webster
  2. in-your-face, in your face: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. in-your-face: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. in-your-face, in-your-face: Collins English Dictionary
  5. in-your-face: Vocabulary.com
  6. in-your-face: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. in-your-face, in your face: Wiktionary
  8. in-your-face: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. in-your-face: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. in-your-face, in your face: Dictionary.com
  11. In Your Face (Fishbone album), In Your Face (Kingdom Come album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. in-your-face: Rhymezone
  13. in-your-face: FreeDictionary.org
  14. in-your-face: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. in-your-face: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. In your face: Phrase Finder
  17. in your face: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. in-your-face: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (In your face)

▸ adjective:  Alternative form of in-your-face [(informal) Aggressively or blatantly confrontational.]

Similar:
head on, affronty, affrontée, bad-ass, bull-headed, bull headed, hatchetfaced, hawkfaced, attitudey, assholeish, more...

Opposite:
subtle, subtlety, covert, undercover

Types:
aggressive, forceful, obtrusive, pushy, intrusive, overbearing, blatant, loud, more...

Phrases:
be in your face, In Front of Your Face, getting in your face, not in your face, to in your face, more...

Adjectives:
toady, ident, busy, bait, coax, mock, nosy, arresting, telltale, slammed

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Similar:
head on, affronty, affrontée, bad-ass, bull-headed, bull headed, hatchetfaced, hawkfaced, attitudey, assholeish, more...

Opposite:
subtle, subtlety, covert, undercover

Types:
aggressive, forceful, obtrusive, pushy, intrusive, overbearing, blatant, loud, more...

Phrases:
be in your face, In Front of Your Face, getting in your face, not in your face, to in your face, more...

Adjectives:
toady, ident, busy, bait, coax, mock, nosy, arresting, telltale, slammed



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