dogpile

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noun

dog·pile ˈdȯg-ˌpī(-ə)l

variants or dog pile or dog-pile

plural dogpiles or dog piles or dog-piles

: 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

: 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

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

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 Nashawaty

We 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

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Noun

Read more The Dodgers are one win away from World Series domination The Dodgers lead this World Series 3-0, with Game 4 Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium, a contest that could end in a big, blue dogpile at the pitcher's mound. —

Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024 The Liberty remember the pain and agony from leaving Barclays Center last October, watching Vegas celebrate with an emotional dogpile at mid-court. —

Shane Young, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024

Verb

This model of virality wasn’t perfect and promoted dogpiling onto people who had often committed some minor, if bizarre, infraction. —

Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023 Many of us may delight in dogpiling Rogan’s artistic failure online, but silence could be the stronger choice. —

Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dogpile