Usually means: Direct collision between two objects.
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  1. head-on: Merriam-Webster
  2. head-on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. head-on: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. head-on, head-on: Collins English Dictionary
  5. head-on: Vocabulary.com
  6. Head-On, Head-on, head-on: Wordnik
  7. head-on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. head-on: Wiktionary
  9. head-on: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. head-on: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. head-on: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. head-on: Dictionary.com
  13. head-on: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Head-on: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. head-on: Rhymezone
  16. head-on: FreeDictionary.org
  17. head-on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. head-on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. head-on: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. head-on: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (idiomatic) Direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating.
adjective:  Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion.
adverb:  With the front of a vehicle.
adverb:  With direct confrontation.
noun:  A collision from the front.

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