Facepalm

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A reaction of embarrassment, disbelief, or frustration at an obvious mistake or avoidable decision. In technical chat it often labels bugs that should have been caught immediately.

    In plain English: A reaction meaning a mistake was painfully obvious or embarrassing.

    Example: "The outage was a facepalm moment once we realized the feature flag name was misspelled."

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