front out/off/it

front out/off/it
vb
a.
to face up to someone or something, either with courage or bluff
She decided to front him out.
b.
to behave aggressively or over-assertively. An activity of young working-class males, often containing an implicit invitation to violence.
► 'He was fronting out down our boozer, so me and a couple of mates gave him a good kicking.' (Recorded, youth, London, 1988)
The phrase in both its senses was popular in the 1980s in Britain, and became a vogue term in US black slang of the 1990s.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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