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frontlash

noun

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.

  1. inherited from *laskô✻
  2. inherited from lashe
  3. prefixed as backlash — “back- + lash”
  4. compounded as frontlash — “front + backlash”

Definitions

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

    • In his keynote, John Paul Hudson condemned the "glossy commercialism" of David Goodstein and the Advocate, which he said was part of a gay media "backlash" -- while the anti-gay "frontlash" against gays continues.
    • When a president uses expansive powers and his policy works, he may benefit from a frontlash effect: the successful assertion of power will not only yield political dividends, it will also strengthen the office of the presidency itself.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA