forestart

A head start.

Noun

  1. A head start.
    • c. 1726, Patrick Walker, quoting Alexander Peden in "Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden", Biographia Presbyteriana John, you and I will be both in heaven shortly; but though you be much...

Origin

From fore- + start. Compare German Vorsprung (“headstart”).

Forms

forestarts