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piledriving en · ADJ
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(informal) Forceful, walloping, hard-hitting.
The Nazareth specialty seems to be pile-driving cover versions of subdued folkie fare like Tim Rose's "Morning Dew," Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," Bob Dylan's "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown" (which they worked into a nine-minute metallic frenzy), and, of course, "Love Hurts."
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 238:a rock number with a piledriving beat
Screaming slide guitar, great songs and tunes, a piledriving rhythm section, superb melodeon and violin.
2000 November 27, Jon, “LJE Live at Cropredy CD”, in uk.music.folk (Usenet):The remainder of the set wasn't in cruise control either. "Julius" was infectuous, filled to the brim with kinetic energy, and "The Horse/Silent In The Morning" not only contained an inflective tone, but was just the right thing to catch my breath. I'm glad I did, as the quartet followed with a piledriving "Reba" whose big jam contained a wealth of interplay and multi-colored passages.
1994 November 2, John J. Wood, “Another Halloween review”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet):
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piledriving en · NOUN
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(uncountable) The action of driving piles into the ground with a piledriver.
piledriving en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of piledrive
So I switched into doggie style, which gives me my piledriving ability, but after a while my knee began to hurt ... I can pile-drive forever, and if I don't go off, what the hell do I care?
1993, Robert J. Stoller, Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century, page 50:Here the essential elements of the piledriving machine are present: a pair of leads, a ram moving between them
1913, Engineering news-record, volume 70: