faceplant
See also: face-plant
English
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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Noun
faceplant (plural faceplants)
- (informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident or error.
- The skater slipped off his board and did a painful faceplant.
- (video games) Death or defeat in a multiplayer online game.
- 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 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.
- (informal) To completely fumble or fail an activity, usually in a spectacular fashion.
Synonyms
Translations
to land face first
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