dogpile
/ˈdɒɡpʌɪl
/North American informal
noun
1A disorderly heap of people formed around one person on whom the others jump: he was mobbed by his teammates in a dogpile near mid-court...
- Ten minutes later, his team collapsed in a dogpile on the infield.
- Now Trevor will have his own chance to try to jump into a joyful dogpile on the diamond.
- They hide in their cave at night, huddled in a dogpile.
1.1A situation in which criticism or abuse is directed at a person or group from multiple sources: the mere suggestion is of course enough to warrant a tabloid dogpile when you have all three opposition parties, it turns into a dogpile on the government...
- Dogpiles might be unseemly, but with the future of commercial drones currently being determined by the FAA, this kind of publicity deserves a heaping of scorn.
- Within days everyone would figure out who he was, and the dogpile would start again.
- No dogpile, it is a legitimate concern, but I'd say his 30-year voting record shows that he is not controlled opposition.
2A lump of dog excrement: I could spot a number of dog piles in the sand...
- He wreaked havoc, trying to ruin live news shots and and leaving dog piles - virtual ones, at least - everywhere.
- You're like that relationship I had a decade ago - it stunk like a dog pile.
- When your peers push you over into the dog pile or when they tear your jacket, nothing that they could do would do anything except make you want to earn more.
verb
1(Of a number of people) jump on top of another person or one another so as to form a disorderly heap: [no object]: the players poured out of the dugout to dogpile on Wright at second base [with object]: the girls regularly tussle and dogpile each other...
- I grinned as one, the largest in mass and muscle, was dogpiled by all others.
- In the contemporary incarnation of the story one anachronistic cliché is dog-piled onto another.
- The team dogpiled on the infield to celebrate its first baseball title since winning the Big Eight in 1980.
1.1(Of a number of people) join in directing critical or abusive comments at another person or group: [no object]: why do I continue to read endless editorials dogpiling on him after his recent election loss? [with object]: those who disagree with the points raised get dogpiled and censored...
- Unfortunately, this really wouldn't have been a story until everyone dog-piled on the racial angle.
- It's clearly false that anyone who cares about social justice just likes dogpiling.
- He would get dogpiled by people, delete his account, register a new one, and start posting again.