When a person thinks he said or did something smart that in fact was unbelieveably stupid, and you know you cannot make him understand this or convince him otherwise, you do a facepalm in self-agony, that means you lower your head in your palm and feel bad.
Person 1: - Everybody else says it this way, so it must be true!
Person 2: - But what is the logical connection between truth and everybody saying it that way, in this last statement of yours?
Person 1: - But I am right! Ask anybody!
Person 2 does a facepalm.
Person 2: - But what is the logical connection between truth and everybody saying it that way, in this last statement of yours?
Person 1: - But I am right! Ask anybody!
Person 2 does a facepalm.
by Bleekcer January 27, 2013
A hand, face jester when one palm covers the face. It also can involve shaking your head in despair or embarrassment. usually used when seeing Cult of $cientology failed attempts to cover who the really are
by bobby McPrescult April 21, 2008
The act of one's palm coming into direct and repeated contact with one's face after doing something particularly humiliating.
by Kate Richard September 19, 2007
An old played out meme which is overused by adolescents on several internet forums. It is an expression which is equivalent in stupidity to telling a Chuck Norris joke, and is often invoked after a person believes something another person has said or done is incredibly stupid and/or misguided.
Person #1: I hate hippies.
Person #2: *facepalm*
Person #1: I can see now that you're a total douche. Bye.
Person #2: *facepalm*
Person #1: I can see now that you're a total douche. Bye.
by Johnson Johnson February 20, 2008
The natural involuntary reaction of slapping your forehead with your palm in exasperation whenever Josh Payne makes a really a bad joke no one asked for, or laughed at, in a Slack Thread...again.
Anybody: (some bit of normal uninteresting casual conversation)
Josh Payne: "So many facepalms"
Another slack user reading the message: *facepalms self involuntarily, cringes, then leaves thread*
Josh Payne: "So many facepalms"
Another slack user reading the message: *facepalms self involuntarily, cringes, then leaves thread*
by When_Anteaters_Collide68 February 20, 2019
The moment when a drunk/sick person no longer is able to hold it together so they put their face in their hands to stop from vomiting.
Kirby: Man Harry's not lookin too good he just went facepalm
Porter: Yea it wont be too long now before he blows
Porter: Yea it wont be too long now before he blows
by jkirb907 December 26, 2009
by khalyd January 22, 2011