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face-plant

verb

  1. intr to fall onto one's face, esp when skiing or snowboarding
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. an act or instance of falling onto one's face
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Christine O'Donnell's latest face-plant—asking "Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?"

Most pathetically, when first confronted by the Queen of Hearts, Alice does a face plant in the ground, out of fear and deference.

I went down in a hard face-plant and skidded, grinding my cheek into the grimy asphalt.

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