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face palm

face palm is the alternative spelling of facepalm.

Meaning of facepalm

Noun

facepalm (plural facepalms)

  1. A gesture of bringing one or both palms to the face, with various interpretations including exasperation, chagrin, frustration, embarrassment (one's own or vicarious), etc.
    • [Cue: William Tell Overture] [sound of Frank Zappa's “San Ber'dino” being played on Japanese instruments] [Kevin (the Muse): “Wargh! It SAID _William Tell!”] [Cantata11 (walking up with a koto): “Oof. Sorry. It's just that the girls had gotten warmed up to the other thingy...”] [Kevin: “William...1996 June 6, Amy Borden, “SG: Slackers Anonymous #14”, in bit.listserv.superguy (Usenet), retrieved 07 Feb 2017, message-ID <Pine.SGI.3.91.960606231711.21356A-100000@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>

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Forms of face palm

Noun
pluralface palms
Verb
third-person singular presentface palms
present participleface palming
past participleface palmed
pastface palmed

Questions about face palm

What is face palm the alternative spelling of?
Face palm is the alternative spelling of facepalm.

Words near face palm in the dictionary

  1. face pack
  2. face packs
  3. face paint
  4. face painting
  5. face paints
  6. face palm
  7. face palms
  8. face piece
  9. face pieces
  10. face plate
  11. face plates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: face palm (page history and authors); facepalm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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