heads-up

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He said, Cad, I just want to give you a heads-up that they're going to come out with some awful stuff tomorrow.

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  1. adjective Showing an alert, competent style: play heads-up basketball.
  2. noun Informal Information or notification, especially in advance: gave me the heads-up on the new security measures.

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  • He said, Cad, I just want to give you a heads-up that they're going to come out with some awful stuff tomorrow. —  CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2001
  • But one morning Gary and I were having a cup of coffee and he was going to give me a heads-up to one of the tabloids. —  CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2001
  • Is this not yet another dramatic heads-up that things could get really, really ugly here at some point? —  CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2008
  • For several months, Mr. Chertoff has been negotiating with the EU, including Britain, to try to get data 48 hours ahead of time, to have people be forced to submit 48 hours before they fly into the U.S., data on who they are, where they're flying, the reason they're flying, so that the United States is given a heads-up in terms of who will be flying into their airports. —  CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2007
  • I want to echo Wolf's heads-up. —  CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007
 

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