FLOODHEAD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A wall of water rushing ahead of the flood

Example:

we were lucky to be safe when the floodheads hit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("floodhead" is a kind of...):

flash flood; flashflood (a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration)

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