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piledrove

piledrove is the simple past 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

Questions about piledrove

What is piledrove the simple past of?
Piledrove is the simple past of piledrive.

Words near piledrove in the dictionary

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

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