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face-plant

face-plant is the alternative spelling of faceplant.

Meaning of faceplant

Noun

faceplant (plural faceplants)

  1. (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.
  2. Death or defeat in a multiplayer online game.
  3. A wrestling move in which an attacking wrestler forces an opponent down to the mat face-first without a headlock or facelock.
    Synonyms:
    facebuster

See all 5 meanings of faceplant

Forms of face-plant

Noun
pluralface-plants
Verb
third-person singular presentface-plants
present participleface-planting
past participleface-planted
pastface-planted

Questions about face-plant

What is face-plant the alternative spelling of?
Face-plant is the alternative spelling of faceplant.

Words near face-plant in the dictionary

  1. face-off circles
  2. face-offs
  3. face-on
  4. face-palm
  5. face-palms
  6. face-plant
  7. face-planted
  8. face-planting
  9. face-plants
  10. face-plate
  11. face-plates

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