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face-plant

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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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Still others — and maybe most of them — just love seeing a Los Angeles team do a face-plant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2021

But as Cuccinelli's face-plant shows, any effort to pull this off is bound to fail.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2019

And I’d willingly do a face-plant in Cucina Al Volo’s smoked pappardelle with wild boar ragu, if it means I could eat it faster.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2019

After taking a face-plant on a long-shot $2,000 investment in American Apparel stock, just months before the company declared bankruptcy, he bought a 1982 Rolex Submariner for $13,000.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2019

Next thing I know, I’m tripping over something and almost face-plant in front of everyone.

From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist

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