Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A gesture of bringing one palm or both palms to the face, with various interpretations.
- v. To bring the palm of one’s hand to one’s face as an expression of mixed humor and disbelief or disgust or shame, for example, when one is caught off-guard with a particularly bad pun.
- v. To bring one’s face down to one’s cupped hand or hands.
Examples
“Also sidenote ... hate using the word facepalm: P wrote: why have a day to celebrate metal when there's not a day to celebrate any other genre of music?”
“A facepalm is the only response I can really come up with regarding the original news item.”
“(The intellectual Right must have had a collective "facepalm" moment when she said, "We miss Ronald Reagan" and his nuclear and national defense policies.)”
“Presumably, he already had the free-thinkers and non-partisan voters on his side * facepalm*”
“Muahaha! jackdurden facepalm blog comments powered by Disqus”
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“I wanted to pick up the set in December but no extended edition is all types of/facepalm so I didn't even bother. slumbergod”
Lord of the Rings Theatrical-Edition Blu-Ray Angers Fans | /Film
“I think facepalm-inducing weirdness helps keep your brain limber.”
“Unfortunately, she was right. (facepalm) These books make vampire lovers look bad.”
“Dunno how I missed this news earlier … * facepalm*”
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“The entire “debate” over climate change is one gigantic facepalm.”
Matthew Yglesias » January Was the Warmest Temperature in World History
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘facepalm’.
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FUN - gestures
There are thousands of sign languages and possibly millions of gestures in human communication but not all of them have a name. Some are understood everywhere, some are understood everywhere but di...
okay sign, abhayamudra, apology, beckoning sign, Bellamy salute, benediction, blessing, blah-blah, "check, please” sign, clenched fist, Chinese number ge..., Clinton thumb and 360 more...
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 453 more...
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New and Unholy Coinage
21st century coinage. Any strange words you`ve seen on TV or heard from irritating young people.
hateration, holleration, chillax, weaksauce, pimpin', hella, meme, blamin, propagandhi, jazzercise, blog, social lubricant and 59 more...
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hashtags
*possibly* some interesting / noteworthy twitter hashtags
( randomness )tfoh, omgfacts, girlthings, gothgirlproblems, deepthoughts, scriptchat, fml, girldictionary, respect, facepalm, skill, quote and 28 more...
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About Face
face, about face, about-face, facet, faced, face card, face value, face facts, facetious, Janus-faced, Boniface, volte-face and 70 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Handcraft
Gestures, signs and signals.
gesture, sign language, hand signal, manual communication, diving signal, tic-tac, gang signal, thumbs up, thumbs down, finger binary, pointing, a-ok and 106 more...
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notable neologisms
A collection of the most fantastic, witty, scandalous, creative, naughty, irreverent, cheeky, inspired, & imaginative new words and new phrases that you have come across or derived from your own br...
facepalm, smexting, social notworking, scratchiti, polarpoint presen..., totes, serious up
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♦ Mia's invisible list ♦
Wordie vocab, wordlets and wordlings, as well as some commenty Wordie threads. Not that you can see anything, mind.
kleptonarcissist, sapiosexual, firewall account, death by tweakage, homoblivious, multishirking, slacktivism, compulsive shoppi..., waambulance, madeupical, godswallop, word apnea and 199 more...
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Amy's List
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memespeak
caution: may or may not contain actual memes or even be remotely associated with memetics.
( personal list )Chuck Norris, perspective, cyberstalker, pedobear, facepalm, very no, cyber-bully, lolz, brb fbi, anon, chatroulette, 4chan and 107 more...
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slang
fanfic slang, hacker jargon, Internet memes etc. that amuse me—mainly ones I might wish to incorporate as natural in my own writing
asamoth, beta, borg, bozo filter, canon rape, delurk, drabble, eated, eleven, facepalm, fangirl, fanon and 61 more...
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Hands on your head
Gestures, poses, and actions involving one or more hands touching the head or near the head. Also words and phrases that bring these to mind.
headslapper, facepalm, v8, awkward starfish, shh, noogie, the scream, the thinker, salute, cock a snook, chin flick, sobriety test and 34 more...
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Teen Speak
frenemy, lulz, gobsmacked, BFF, FTW, sperglord, copyleft, beanplate, ish, facepalm, famewhore, starfucker and 6 more...
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What's the word for that?
Words to describe gestures or expressions that I make that I don't know.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for facepalm.

Prolagus *facepalm* Jun 16, 2010
seanahan Mostly from frustration. Jul 9, 2008
plethora Yes. Jul 8, 2008
chained_bear Frustration or embarrassment, I think. No? Jul 8, 2008
plethora Close relative of *headdesk* Jul 8, 2008
seanahan Hitting your palm against your forehead in frustration. Nov 8, 2007