pile on
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To jump on top of someone or something quickly.
verb
To criticize someone or something in a concerted effort; to add on some additional critique.
noun
Example Sentences
- "As football linebackers pile on a quarterback in a blitz, the newspaper editorialist heaped sarcasm onto the president."
- "Piling on: Players may not pile on a runner after the ball is dead or intentionally fall upon any prostrate player."
- "The quarterback turns and hands the ball to his fullback just as Sumo hits him in the backfield causing a fumble. Ball loose, ball loose screamed Jones. There is a mad scramble for the loose ball as bodies pile on top of each other."
- "OK, OK, they've already gotten the constructive criticism. Now you're just piling on."
- "Piling on Nickelback is old hat. Can't we all just move on already? Chad Kroeger and his band are still the group everyone loves to hate, but after the Queensland police put out a wanted poster for them for ‘crimes against music’ Luke Holland asks: has the hating gone too far?"
- "The hashtag #WorstFlotusEver has started to take off on Twitter, with critics piling on the former model by listing their many grievances and mocking her achievements over the past four years."