Meaning

2 senses

  1. (informal, intransitive, transitive)To land face first.

    auf die Fresse fliegen, auf die Schnauze fallen

    па́дать лицом внизlicom, впечататься лицомvpečatatʹsja licom

  2. (informal, intransitive)To completely fumble or fail in an activity, usually in a spectacular fashion.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
to land face first:
Deutsch
to land face first:

Origin

From face + plant (“place, set firmly”). Originally skateboarding and snowboarding slang,

From face + plant (“place, set firmly”). Originally skateboarding and snowboarding slang, a humorous variant of handplant, which is an intentional technique in these sports.

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Forms

faceplants, faceplanting, faceplanted, faceplanted
Base formfaceplant · to faceplant
3rd person singularfaceplants
Present participlefaceplanting
Past simplefaceplanted
Past participlefaceplanted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfaceplant
he, she, itfaceplants

Past simpleLesson

all personsfaceplanted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave faceplanted
he, she, ithas faceplanted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill faceplant

Synonyms

1 synonyms
eat it

Word family

2 related words
Relatedextreme sportfacepalm

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
faceA1facelessfaceliftfacetfacetiousfacialC1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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