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I saw it in a subtitle of a movie. I searched Google for it, but found nothing. So I thought it might be wrong or it is not quite uncommon. Then I decided asking here.

The context is: a guy #1 owes someone some drug pill, and the one who said this, said that the guy #1 is late on his front, as he is owing him money.

Sasha Nicolas
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  • My guess is it's either actual, or made-up-for-the-movie slang deriving from guy#1 not having paid his money "up front" when he was supposed to (to pay for the drugs he wants). I doubt it has much currency, if any. – FumbleFingers Jul 15 '14 at 03:44

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The Urban Dictionary has as one of the definitions of front, "To advance somone money/drugs", so I would hazard a guess that he is late advancing (or repaying an advance) of money/drugs

Dale M
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I guess the expression is derived from the following idiomatic use of front:

To front someone some amount of money:

to provide an advance payment of some amount to someone. The buyer fronted me half the purchase price as a favor.

Source:McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.