piledriving
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Verb
[edit]piledriving
- present participle and gerund of piledrive
- 1913, Engineering news-record[1], volume 70:
- Here the essential elements of the piledriving machine are present: a pair of leads, a ram moving between them
- 1993, Robert J. Stoller, Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century, page 50:
- So I switched into doggie style, which gives me my piledriving ability, but after a while my knee began to hurt ... I can pile-drive forever, and if I don't go off, what the hell do I care?
Noun
[edit]piledriving (uncountable)
- The action of driving piles into the ground with a piledriver.
Adjective
[edit]piledriving (comparative more piledriving, superlative most piledriving)
- Forceful, walloping, hard-hitting
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 238:
- The Nazareth specialty seems to be pile-driving cover versions of subdued folkie fare like Tim Rose's "Morning Dew," Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," Bob Dylan's "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown" (which they worked into a nine-minute metallic frenzy), and, of course, "Love Hurts."
- 1994 November 2, John J. Wood, “Another Halloween review”, in rec.music.phish[2] (Usenet):
- The remainder of the set wasn't in cruise control either. "Julius" was infectuous, filled to the brim with kinetic energy, and "The Horse/Silent In The Morning" not only contained an inflective tone, but was just the right thing to catch my breath. I'm glad I did, as the quartet followed with a piledriving "Reba" whose big jam contained a wealth of interplay and multi-colored passages.
References
[edit]- “piledriving”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.