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faceplants

faceplants is the plural of faceplant.

faceplants is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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Questions about faceplants

What is faceplants the plural of?
Faceplants is the plural of faceplant.

Words near faceplants in the dictionary

  1. facepile
  2. facepiles
  3. faceplant
  4. faceplanted
  5. faceplanting
  6. faceplants
  7. faceplate
  8. faceplated
  9. faceplates
  10. faceprint
  11. faceprinted

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