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  • noun Alternative spelling of faceplant.
  • verb Alternative spelling of faceplant.

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Examples

  • Glad no one was around to see that humiliating face-plant.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • Glad no one was around to see that humiliating face-plant.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • This idea has been around a long time; I just had to face-plant to learn it viscerally, and it seemed to me, a religionless agnostic, the closest thing to what might be termed "active prayer."

    Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011

  • This idea has been around a long time; I just had to face-plant to learn it viscerally, and it seemed to me, a religionless agnostic, the closest thing to what might be termed "active prayer."

    Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011

  • This idea has been around a long time; I just had to face-plant to learn it viscerally, and it seemed to me, a religionless agnostic, the closest thing to what might be termed "active prayer."

    Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011

  • Glad no one was around to see that humiliating face-plant.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • This idea has been around a long time; I just had to face-plant to learn it viscerally, and it seemed to me, a religionless agnostic, the closest thing to what might be termed "active prayer."

    Ming Holden: What I Learned at AWP Ming Holden 2011

  • But with a majority or near majority of Rhode Islanders supporting gay marriage, and with only one member of the legislature voting against the measure -- and therefore with dozens of opponents of marriage equality voting in favor of it -- the maneuver amounted to a self-inflicted gubernatorial face-plant.

    David Segal: Rhode Island to Buck National Organization for Marriage, Override Veto of Domestic Partner Death Rights 2010

  • Ronnie Belliard blooped to right field, and Justin Maxwell made a face-plant diving catch for the second out.

    Nationals shut out Dodgers, 1-0, to conclude 6-4 homestand 2010

  • Question 2: In yet another major public face-plant, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has announced the end of Google Wave.

    You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz 2010

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