Definitions

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  • noun Alternative spelling of pile driver. (mechanical device)
  • noun professional wrestling A move in which the wrestler applies a front waist lock, then drives the opponent's head into the mat by falling to his knees or backside.
  • noun soccer a very hard shot.

Etymologies

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pile +‎ driver

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Examples

  • A piledriver is a very dangerous move and no one should ever try to execute it on another person.

    heartbreak &triumph Trisia Tomanelli 2005

  • A piledriver is a very dangerous move and no one should ever try to execute it on another person.

    heartbreak &triumph Trisia Tomanelli 2005

  • "piledriver" - wherein one man puts the other's head between his thighs and then drops it forcefully into the mat - actually accomplished what the move normally only insinuated, and

    Deadspin 2010

  • Barack Obama's senior aide, a profane 'piledriver', looks likely to quit so he can seek to become mayor of Chicago

    Rahm Emanuel allowed to stand for Chicago mayor 2011

  • They just drop in terms like "piledriver" and ask "Who's gonna win?"

    4thletter! Gavok 2010

  • The increased competition in the marketplace will drive down costs like a piledriver.

    Nelson expresses support for using trigger on public insurance 2009

  • A Pavlyuchenko shot hits Wisgerhof on the elbow as the big defender turned his back on the piledriver from very close range.

    Tottenham Hotspur v FC Twente – as it happened Scott Murray 2010

  • Rubin would have been 2-0 ahead at the interval had it not been for the goalkeeper Ryan Thompson's penalty save from the striker Nelson Valdez, but the Jamaica international was beaten for a second time by Christian Noboa's piledriver seven minutes after the restart.

    Shamrock Rovers 0-3 Rubin Kazan | Europa League Group A match report 2011

  • As on his band's new, self-titled sophomore release, his performances aspire to a terrifying frenzy in which notes spill forth at an astonishing pace, oddball time signatures driving jagged meters over piledriver drumming.

    Brooklyn Banjo Shredder Goes Nuclear Steve Dollar 2011

  • John O'Shea, on his debut for Sunderland, headed against the crossbar in the second minute, Scott Sinclair shivered it with a piledriver from distance.

    Sunderland want Peter Crouch after goalless draw with Swansea City 2011

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