pile-on
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An argument or fight in which one side is greatly advantaged by being more numerous or more closely allied than the other side.
Example Sentences
- "We are in a time of never-ending Twitter pile-ons. Sometimes the criticism is warranted: Twitter can be a place for marginalised voices to amplify or bring attention to an injustice they have suffered."
- "A social media “pile-on” against anyone who criticises Sinn Féin does not aid or assist the party, its housing spokesman has said."
- "Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences."
- "Online, there’s a level of industrial-scale bullying directed at Heard that puts all previous social media pile-ons to shame."