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piledriving

piledriving is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

piledriving (uncountable)

  1. The action of driving piles into the ground with a piledriver.

Adjective

piledriving (comparative more piledriving, superlative most piledriving)

  1. (informal) Forceful, walloping, hard-hitting.
    • a rock number with a piledriving beat
    • The Nazareth specialty seems to be pile-driving cover versions of subdued folkie fare like Tim Rose's "Morning Dew," Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," Bob Dylan's "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown" (which they worked into a nine-minute metallic frenzy), and, of course, "Love Hurts."1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 238

Forms of piledriving

comparativemore piledriving
superlativemost piledriving

Words that rhyme with piledriving

Questions about piledriving

What does piledriving mean?
Piledriving means the action of driving piles into the ground with a piledriver.
What is piledriving the present participle and gerund of?
Piledriving is the present participle and gerund of piledrive.
What part of speech is piledriving?
Piledriving can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near piledriving in the dictionary

  1. piledrive
  2. piledriven
  3. piledriver
  4. piledrivers
  5. piledrives
  6. piledriving
  7. piledrove
  8. Pileggi
  9. Pileggis
  10. pilei
  11. pileiform

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