faceplant
Englisch
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Originally skateboarding and snowboarding slang, a humorous variant of (deprecated template usage) handplant, which is an intentional technique in these sports.
Pronunciation
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Nomen
faceplant (plural faceplants)
- (deprecated template usage) (informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident oder error.
- The skater slipped off his board and did a painful faceplant.
- (deprecated template usage) (video games) Death or defeat in popular multiplayer online games.
- A wrestling move in which an attacking wrestler forces his/her opponent down to the mat face-first without a headlock or facelock.
Usage notes
Other variants are more rarely found, such as (deprecated template usage) assplant, in addition to variants of the intentional (deprecated template usage) handplant, such as (deprecated template usage) elbow plant.
Translations
act of landing face first
video games: death or defeat in multiplayer games
Verb
faceplant (third-person singular simple present faceplants, present participle faceplanting, simple past and past participle faceplanted)
- (deprecated template usage) (informal) To land face first.
Synonyms
Translations
to land face first
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