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trust-falling en · NOUN

Etymology

From trust fall + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The act of performing a trust fall.
    • There better be trust-falling or I'm totally out of here. 2009, Jacob Lentz, Paul Koehorst, There's No I in Office: 4293 Meaningless Phrases to Keep Your Coworkers Smiling While Avoiding Actual Conversation, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 186:
    • After years of off-site meetings filled with ropes courses and trust-falling exercises, even the most openminded executives have come to be suspicious of anything that looks or sounds touchy-feely. 2012, Patrick M. Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
    • One night, I stood in the middle of my Art Family, and my Art Family held hands around me like in the hippie days trust-falling, and we sang “Slow Poke” or “My Buddy,” or harmonized on the “Idaho State Song” or “Song of Bernadette” or ... 2007, Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN, page 476: