frontsie

The act of joining a queue in front of a friend rather than at the end of the queue.

Noun

  1. The act of joining a queue in front of a friend rather than at the end of the queue.
    • To her, the ethical thicket consists of "frontsies and backsies," a phenomenon she noticed in kindergarten. - 1988, William L. Rivers, Cleve Mathews, Ethics for the media, page 45:
    • One of his favorites is "No frontsies, no backsies," so there was really no point in trying to butt in. - 2003, Ann M. Martin, The Baby-sitter's Club, page 200:
    • He then suggests a lawyerly solution to her problem: just ask your friend to grant you a frontsie first, so that you can enter the queue in front of her, but promise that you will then grant her a frontsie in turn, by...

Origin

From front + -sie.

Forms

frontsies