front up

Definitions

1. 1

   To lead or represent.

   • Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Crosbie, the lead for the Major Investigation Team, was fronting it up, but she wouldn't have expected anything else. A highprofile case always suits the suits.
   • Coming into a new team – especially fronting it up —can be tricky if you're replacing someone who didn't, let's say, want to leave the post, but the results of my predecessor spoke volumes: volumes of crime.
2. 2

   To show up

   To show up; to appear or present oneself.

   • "Like this when you left for Suakin?" Patrick asked as he fronted up to the bar with the smaller man beside him.
   • Back in Brisbane on the Tuesday morning, I fronted up to have my knee checked out by Doctor Lars, an orthopaedic surgeon.
   • So I fronted up Saturday afternoon at the usual time to find quite a crowd of blokes waiting to go to work.
3. 3

   To meet with one's best efforts.

   • Honestly. We'd fronted up and given it our best shot.
   • Sven was under a lot of pressure as it was at the end of the week when England had lost to Northern Ireland and we had him and Lawrie Sanchez on set. England were in a mess but he fronted it up.
   • I fronted up. I had little idea that this was what I was doing at the time, but in hindsight, I always did it. I always fronted up and allowed life to present itself to me.
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   1. 4

      To face

      To face; to confront or challenge.

      • He might have been the business when it came to knocking the bollocks out of little babies, but fronted up by a real man that gutless coward went to pieces and buggered off without arguing.
      • We fronted up to the fact that we'd be there until we got the whole nightmare sorted out for ourselves.
      • He's been the fat guy. He's had cancer. He has fronted up to both and sorted them out.
   2. 5

      To admit or confess.

      • And they do have a case: I would feel a lot better about myself if I just fronted up to Amy and told her the truth about working here for real three days a week.
      • If he asks for longer, then you start the blackmail by saying you've been honest with him by fronting it up before the deal rather than firing him afterwards.
   3. 6

      To pay in advance or give with the expectation of being reimbursed later.

      • The second training was $800, and someone I met through the first training wanted to make sure that I continued on; so they fronted up the money, and I paid them back.
      • After extracting the truth, Alan's parents had fronted up the money to pay off his debt.
      • So, I was helping him find a job, paying for his petrol to get to interviews, and I also fronted up the cash for a motel. He told me he'd pay me back once he got himself together again.

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