Pile-on

Quick meaning: Pile-on is a noun meaning An argument or fight in which one side is greatly advantaged by being more numerous or more closely allied than the other side.

Meaning

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

Online, there’s a level of industrial-scale bullying directed at Heard that puts all previous social media pile-ons to shame.

A social media “pile-on” against anyone who criticises Sinn Féin does not aid or assist the party, its housing spokesman has said.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• pile-ons

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overadvantage, overmatch, one-upmanship, landslide, overhand, superfight.

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