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单词 dogpile
释义

dogpile

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noun

dog·​pile ˈdȯg-ˌpī(-ə)l How to pronounce dogpile (audio)
variants or dog pile or dog-pile
plural dogpiles or dog piles or dog-piles
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: a mass of people who have piled on top of one another (as in celebrating a sports victory or while fighting)
… baseball teams celebrated with a dogpile—a heap of flailing arms, legs and gloves. Jami Frankenberry
Another video shows students swinging at each other, and at the bottom of the dogpile is a female teacher. Peyton Yager
Greg Anthony … exchanged words with Johnson and punched him in the face. Those two went to the floor with a dogpile on top of them. Zach Buckley
also : the act or an instance of forming a dogpile
When Sterling's reserves ran out the clock, the starters left the bench for a dog pile at mid-court. Later they doused Rowland with a celebratory water-bottle shower. Todd Fertig
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: a barrage of criticism, insults, etc. directed at someone or something by many people
Sanders … recovered his footing after being surprised by the debate's first dogpile, over his non-Democratic voting record on guns. Dallas Morning News
Other tweets … added to the dogpile of mockery and memes. Lisa Suhay

dogpile

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verb

variants or less commonly dog-pile
dogpiled also dog-piled; dogpiling also dog-piling; dogpiles also dog-piles
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transitive + intransitive : to form a dogpile around someone especially as part of a fight or celebration
Paga seems like a guy who had a passel of brothers at home, dogpiling and throwing each other across the room. Tim Keown
Florida dog-piled after it won the Southeastern Conference … Dirk Chatelain
He then collapsed to his knees and his team dogpiled him on the court. David Rice
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transitive + intransitive, of a group of people : to direct a barrage of criticism, insults, etc. at (someone or something)
Then, when [Tucker] Carlson suggested the U.S. military should be more focused on fighting, DOD brass dogpiled him. Anders Hagstrom
often used with on
When the sci-fi teen romance … hit theaters back in February, critics dogpiled on it for being a flashy, derivative mess … Chris NashawatyWe hate to dogpile on the Huskies, but Northeastern's 77-0 loss at UMass Saturday ranked as the most lopsided in the country that day. Michael Vega

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1921, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

circa 1947, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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