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/ˈdɒɡ pʌɪl/ · noun
(US colloquial) A disorderly pile of people formed by jumping upon a victim..
The bottom man of a 'dog pile' in a fraternity house scuffle is in a hospital with a neck dislocation.
Purdy tucked the pigskin under his elbow and cantered over a dog-pile for a tally.
Unscrambling the dogpile of objects can be messy.
Mrs. Brown cleaned her lawn up bright and early each day; Picked up all the dog piles so her children could play.
I fumbled the snap, fell on the ball and about 10 guys dog-piled on top of me.
He can either take a beating from one man or... be dogpiled by a dozen men.
A vampire got her around the neck from behind; then more, dogpiling her.
That story — about Carlson’s conflicted response to the sight of “a group of Trump guys” dogpiling an “Antifa kid” — appears to involve a crisis of conscience, an unexpected, chastening eruption of empathy.
Use dog pile when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dog pile means (US colloquial) A disorderly pile of people formed by jumping upon a victim..
Common synonyms include pig pile, scrum, ruck, stacks on the mill.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The bottom man of a 'dog pile' in a fraternity house scuffle is in a hospital with a neck dislocation.
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