pile ons

Verb

pile on (third-person singular simple present piles on, present participle piling on, simple past and past participle piled on)

1. (ambitransitive) To jump on top of someone or something quickly.
   • As football linebackers pile on a quarterback in a blitz, the newspaper editorialist heaped sarcasm onto the president.2006, Steven M. Hallock, Editorial and Opinion: The Dwindling Marketplace of Ideas in Today's News, Praeger, →ISBN, page 69
2. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To criticize someone or something in a concerted effort; to add on some additional critique.
   • OK, OK, they've already gotten the constructive criticism. Now you're just piling on.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To unnecessarily extend the margin of a winning score.
4. (informal, transitive) To add or apply in great quantities.