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  • verb Present participle of face-plant.

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Examples

  • Just as quickly as it had soared, my spirit came face-planting down.

    Should Have Gotten Delivery Instead Erin Zulkoski 2011

  • If you walk while texting be warned: you may end up in the ER for face-planting ...

    Coffee Break: July 25 2008

  • I sat next to Katie, laboring over weighty decisions like how to get a fork up to my mouth, but before I could eat much of dinner, I passed out, face-planting in a plate of mashed potatoes.

    HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009

  • I sat next to Katie, laboring over weighty decisions like how to get a fork up to my mouth, but before I could eat much of dinner, I passed out, face-planting in a plate of mashed potatoes.

    HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009

  • The only way this will be good is if she first jams the camera between her thighs, then guns down a T-Rex whilst screaming profanity shortly before falling from the top of a cave and face-planting.

    LARA CROFT: MEGAN FOX NAKED. MAYBE. 2009

  • I sat next to Katie, laboring over weighty decisions like how to get a fork up to my mouth, but before I could eat much of dinner, I passed out, face-planting in a plate of mashed potatoes.

    HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009

  • Right now, those of you who know me in person are sitting there slack-jawed and gaping, assuming that Ed must be some kind of goddamned magician to have kept me from face-planting into the china cabinet or carving up a Persian rug with my high heels.

    I said this world is full of endless abstractions 2009

  • Well, here's one of Spainy-cat, face-planting in her favorite blanket.

    May 25th, 2005 2005

  • It's just too much fun watching you fall all over yourself with some big "scoop" and then face-planting when it turns out not to be true.

    Engadget promotes the iPhone 2007

  • Worse, I tangle my poles in front of me at the very moment the chair sweeps under us, so I barely manage to sit without tripping forward over them and face-planting in front of the attendant.

    Do - Over Niki Burnham 2006

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