headstart

See also: head start and Head Start

English

Etymology

From head +‎ start.

Noun

headstart (plural headstarts)

  1. Alternative spelling of head start.
    • 2016, Chuck Eddy, “’10s”, in Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 244:
      Some of the outrage is no doubt deserved—I have no patience for bigots myself, [] As a presumed lifetime beneficiary of demographic headstarts, I’m often implicated by definition myself, a situation I can live with. But I rarely entertain an urge to either pile on or argue back.

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