What is "piledriver"

alt. 1 (alternative spelling of pile driver English) (qualifier: mechanical device) 2 (context professional wrestling English) A move in which the wrestler applies a front waist lock, then drives the opponent's head into the mat by falling to his knees or backside. 3 (context soccer English) a very hard shot. n. 1 (alternative spelling of pile driver English) (qualifier: mechanical device) 2 (context professional wrestling English) A move in which the wrestler applies a front waist lock, then drives the opponent's head into the mat by falling to his knees or backside. 3 (context soccer English) a very hard shot.

A piledriver is a professional wrestling driver move in which the wrestler grabs his opponent, turns him upside-down, and drops into a sitting or kneeling position, driving the opponent head-first into the mat. The technique is said to have been innovated by Wild Bill Longson.

The name is taken from a piece of construction equipment, also called a pile driver, that drives countless massive impacts on the top of a large major foundation support, burying it in the ground slowly with each impact. The act of performing a piledriver is called "piledriving." Someone who has recently been the victim of a piledriver is said to have been "piledriven" (e.g. "The wrestler was piledriven into the canvas").

Notable wrestlers who have regularly used a piledriver during their career include Jerry Lawler, Bret Hart, Harley Race, Paul Orndorff, The Undertaker, Kane, The Brain Busters, Buddy Rogers, and Karl Gotch.

The Piledriver is often seen as one of the most dangerous moves in wrestling. The Reverse Piledriver is directly responsible for shortening the career of WWE Superstar Stone Cold Steve Austin when his opponent, Owen Hart, inadvertently botched the move, legitimately injuring Austin's neck. Due to this, the move is banned in WWE with the exception of Kane and The Undertaker due to their experience and size.

Piledriver is a Canadian thrash / heavy metal band, formed in 1984 by Gord Kirchen. They are known for an over-the-top image and flamboyant song titles and lyrics (as exemplified by such tracks as "Sex With Satan", "Alien Rape", "Sodomize the Dead", "Witch Hunt" and "Human Sacrifice"). Their best known song is possibly the title track of their debut album, Metal Inquisition from 1985. The album was followed by Stay Ugly a year later in 1986. These two early recordings have globally sold nearly 500,000 copies to date.

The band soon disappeared. However, some years later, Kirchin revealed that the band and albums were just a studio project and that the band never really existed at all, with all the names and virtually everything else about the band being made up. Kirchin later formed his own band, Dogs With Jobs, sporadically working on solo material. In 2005, a new band was formed under the revised name of The Exalted Piledriver. A long search began for Kirchin to find the right musicians to fill the promise of the original albums. In the summer of 2006 the current line-up was finalized: Mark Kopernicky (stage name Kinky Pork Cream, guitars), Gerry Keough (stage name Glace Frothfritter, drums) and Robert Tollefson (stage name Lobo Elf Snort, bass). After many live shows in Canada, the USA and in Europe, the band entered the studio in late 2007 to record the first album to feature an actual band. The album, entitled Metal Manifesto, was released in 2008. The band will be playing shows in Canada and Europe during 2009, including a date at the Headbanger's Open Air festival in Itzehoe, Germany in July.

Piledriver (Brian Philip Calusky) is a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. He is a member of the Wrecker's Wrecking Crew. The character was created by Len Wein and Sal Buscema and first appeared in Defenders #17 (November 1974).

Piledriver or pile driver may refer to:

• Pile driver, a mechanical device used in construction
• Piledriver (professional wrestling), a move used in professional wrestling

The piledriver is a sexual position. Named after the downward motion of an actual pile driver, the position is executed by the receiving partner lying on their back bent into a frontbend in a pose similar to the yoga plow pose, with their bottom up and their legs bent over their head, while the insertive partner stands above them and inserts their penis or other object downwards into the receptive partner's vagina or anus.

The position is both acrobatic, and quite strenuous for both participants, in particular the receptive partner, who is severely constrained by the frontbend.

Piledriver is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, released in 1972. It was the first to be produced by the group themselves, and their first on the Vertigo label after their departure from Pye Records.

The album's only single, "Paper Plane" (by Francis Rossi and Bob Young), with the b-side "Softer Ride" (written by Rick Parfitt and Alan Lancaster), was to become the first in a sequence of thirty-three Top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart when it peaked at #8 after its release in November 1972. The b-side would later be incorporated into the band's following album, Hello!, released the following year.

The album itself was released in December the same year, and reached the highest position of #5 in the UK charts, spending 37 weeks there.

AMD Piledriver Family 15h is a microarchitecture developed by AMD as the second-generation successor to Bulldozer. It targets desktop, mobile and server markets. It is used for the AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (formerly Fusion), AMD FX, and the Opteron line of processors.

The changes over Bulldozer are incremental. Piledriver uses the same "module" design. Its main improvements are to branch prediction and FPU/integer scheduling, along with a switch to hard-edge flip-flops to improve power consumption. This resulted in clock speed gains of 8–10% and a performance increase of around 15% with similar power characteristics. FX-9590 is around 30–35% faster than Bulldozer-based FX-8150, mostly because of higher clock speed.

Products based on Piledriver were first released on 15 May 2012 with the AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), code-named Trinity, series of mobile products. APUs aimed at desktops followed in early October 2012 with Piledriver-based FX-series CPUs released later in the month. Opteron server processors based upon Piledriver were announced in early December 2012.