out front is an adverb meaning "leading or ahead in a competition". It carries one recorded sense.
leading or ahead in a competition
“the horse was three lengths ahead going into the home stretch”
“ahead by two pawns”
“our candidate is in the lead in the polls”
“way out front in the race”
“the advertising campaign put them out front in sales”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for out front come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.