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- noun An amount that fills or covers the
face .
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Examples
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The end result is that the first time these people actually come face to face with a reluctant prisoner (sorry, detained person – sorry, customer) is on their first night shift with their tutor as superdrunk kicks off – when they approach and advise re conduct they get a faceful of abuse delivered at about 6 inch range complete with spittle and stale beer fumes.
Make the lie big, make it simple and keep saying it. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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How do you think I felt when I was about to see Jenna get a faceful and suddenly my porno-channel cut to Kurt Warner getting sacked!
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ElBruce probably just needs a good faceful of spray paint or glue to adjust his thinking.
Think Progress » Sen. Kit Bond Wants To Privatize Medicare With Vouchers 2010
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Steny Hoyer demanded colleagues risk a faceful of pepper spray and #occupy the House floor.
HUFFPOST HILL - GOP Lawmaker Proposes Christmas Cuddle Summit Eliot Nelson 2011
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In the movie, Jason Bateman's earnest lawyer and family man, Dave, gets a faceful of feces while changing a diaper.
'Apes': Something to Thump Chests About Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Williams said, getting a faceful of Baldwin's burly chest.
Onstage drama and backstage delight at the Academy Awards 2010
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She'd said they were two of a kind, and he wanted to believe that, but he had a faceful of gravel now and probably some broken fingers, and nowhere to go.
Two of a Kind 2010
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In getting them down, I took a faceful of dust and beetle carapaces.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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In getting them down, I took a faceful of dust and beetle carapaces.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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I sniffed the air, testing for my sister's perfume but instead got a faceful of city smells and the oily stench of cheap apartment parking lots.
The Impossible Division by Zero Okla Elliott 2010
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