faceplant
See also: face-plant
Englisch
Alternative forms
Etymology
face + plant (“place, set firmly”). Originally skateboarding and snowboarding slang, a humorous variant of handplant, which is an intentional technique in these sports.
Pronunciation
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Nomen
faceplant (plural faceplants)
- (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.
- (video games) Death or defeat in a multiplayer online game.
- (wrestling) A wrestling move in which an attacking wrestler forces an opponent down to the mat face-first without a headlock oder facelock.
- Synonym: facebuster
Usage notes
Other variants are more rarely found, such as assplant (“land on one’s ass, buttocks (unintentionally)”), in addition to variants of the intentional handplant, such as 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)
- (informal) To land face first.
- 2013, Micah Persell, Of Consuming Fire: Middle of the Garden, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN)
- Moments before she face-planted on the tile, his hands shot out and grabbed her, pulling her safely to his chest. She face-planted in the middle of his pecs instead.
- 2013, Micah Persell, Of Consuming Fire: Middle of the Garden, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN)
- (informal) To completely fumble or fail an activity, usually in a spectacular fashion.
Translations
to land face first
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