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pile-drive

pile-drive is the alternative form of piledrive.

Meaning of piledrive

Verb

piledrive (third-person singular simple present piledrives, present participle piledriving, simple past piledrove, past participle piledriven)

  1. To use a piledriver on.
    • So we would take a twenty-five-ton — or maybe it was twelve and a half, I don't recall — airhammer and piledrive that sonofabitch into place.1993, Archie Green, Wobblies, pile butts, and other heroes: laborlore explorations, page 372
  2. To use the piledriver move.
    • "Any wrestler who will piledrive Lawler and injure him like he did me gets five thousand dollars from me!"2002, Jerry Lawler, Doug Asheville, It's Good to Be the King...Sometimes, page 199
  3. (slang) To make deep and rapid penetration in the fashion of a piledriver.
    • So I switched into doggie style, which gives me my piledriving ability, but after a while my knee began to hurt ... I can pile-drive forever, and if I don't go off, what the hell do I care?1993, Robert J. Stoller, Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century, page 50

Forms of pile-drive

third-person singular presentpile-drives
present participlepile-driving
pastpile-drove
past participlepile-driven

Questions about pile-drive

What is pile-drive the alternative form of?
Pile-drive is the alternative form of piledrive.

Words near pile-drive in the dictionary

  1. pile out
  2. pile Pelion on Ossa
  3. pile shoe
  4. pile shoes
  5. pile up
  6. pile-drive
  7. pile-driven
  8. pile-drives
  9. pile-driving
  10. pile-drove
  11. pile-on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pile-drive (page history and authors); piledrive (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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