tombstoning
jumping from a cliff into a body of water
TRANSLATION
tombstoning = das Klippenspringen (vor allem bei unerfahrenen Jugendlichen) --- GOOGLE INDEX tombstoning: approximately 150,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Divers find bodies of girls believed to have been TOMBSTONING
(The Daily Telegraph, article headline)
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Beach inspectors are warning people against TOMBSTONING after a group were seen jumping into water just a metre deep off Worthing Pier.
(Worthing Herald newspaper, UK)
(The Daily Telegraph, article headline)
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Beach inspectors are warning people against TOMBSTONING after a group were seen jumping into water just a metre deep off Worthing Pier.
(Worthing Herald newspaper, UK)
Did you
know?
tombstoning
noun, slang
- jumping into the sea from a cliff or other high point
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Tombstoning is an activity which has occurred around the coast of England for generations. Unfortunately it has become a trend sport, particularly among young people, that has gained attention for the wrong reasons, with a number of people killed or seriously injured. The expression was adopted because of the way a person falls and plunges into the water the way a stone (or tombstone, a grave marker) would.
Tombstoning has a number of other totally unrelated definitions including:
- an unwanted effect in the manufacture of electronic circuit boards, in which a component stands up on end instead of lying flat
- In page layout, putting journalism articles side by side so that the headlines are adjacent
- In highway driving, a blockage in traffic caused by a semi-trailer truck attempting to pass another with insufficient acceleration (chiefly southern U.S.)
- the practice of leaving a marker in a location where a digital record has been withdrawn, in order to signify that the record had previously existed
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"Tombstoning is a dangerous trend sport made attractive by films on the internet."
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noun, slang
- jumping into the sea from a cliff or other high point
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Tombstoning is an activity which has occurred around the coast of England for generations. Unfortunately it has become a trend sport, particularly among young people, that has gained attention for the wrong reasons, with a number of people killed or seriously injured. The expression was adopted because of the way a person falls and plunges into the water the way a stone (or tombstone, a grave marker) would.
Tombstoning has a number of other totally unrelated definitions including:
- an unwanted effect in the manufacture of electronic circuit boards, in which a component stands up on end instead of lying flat
- In page layout, putting journalism articles side by side so that the headlines are adjacent
- In highway driving, a blockage in traffic caused by a semi-trailer truck attempting to pass another with insufficient acceleration (chiefly southern U.S.)
- the practice of leaving a marker in a location where a digital record has been withdrawn, in order to signify that the record had previously existed
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Tombstoning is a dangerous trend sport made attractive by films on the internet."
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Thanks to Josef for suggesting today's word!
