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{{also|pile-on}}
==English==
 
===Alternative forms===
* {{l|en|pile-on}}
 
===Verb===
{{en-verb|piles on|piling on|piled on}}
 
# {{lb|en|transitive|idiomatic}} toTo jump on top of someone or something quickly.
#* {{quote-book|year=2006|author=Steven M. Hallock|title=Editorial and Opinion: The Dwindling Marketplace of Ideas in Today's News|publisher=Praeger|url=|isbn=978-0275993306|page=69|passage=As football linebackers '''pile on''' a quarterback in a blitz, the newspaper editorialist heaped sarcasm onto the president.}}
#* {{quote-book|year=2009|author=Human Kinetics with Thomas Hanlon|title=The Sports Rules Book - 3rd Edition|publisher=Human Kinetics|url=|isbn=978-0736076326|page=116|passage=Piling on: Players may not '''pile on''' a runner after the ball is dead or intentionally fall upon any prostrate player.}}