Usually means: Springing forward using head, hands.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. headspring: Merriam-Webster
  2. headspring: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. headspring: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. headspring: Collins English Dictionary
  5. headspring: Vocabulary.com
  6. headspring: Wordnik
  7. headspring: Wiktionary
  8. headspring: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. headspring: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Headspring, headspring: Dictionary.com
  11. Headspring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. headspring: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. headspring: Rhymezone
  14. Headspring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. headspring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. headspring: FreeDictionary.org
  17. headspring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. headspring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headspring: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headspring: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (headspring)

noun:  A fountainhead; a source.
noun:  (figurative) A basis or foundation.
noun:  (gymnastics) A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet.
noun:  A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward.
verb:  (gymnastics) To perform a headspring.

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