/?ro?d ?k?l/animalsthat arekilledonroadsbycarsor othervehicles:Manycountyresidentshaveprobablyneverspottedafox, exceptmaybeas roadkill.Onaverage, twocrocodilesayearend up asroadkillon Florida's Highway 1.someone or something that isdestroyedordamagedas aresultof something:Sadly, anypoliticiansuggestingthis would be roadkill.Itappearsbad-drivingfeesare on the way tobecominglegislativeroadkill.More examples
Roadkillaccountsfor all too many of thesightingsofbirdsandmammals.
The way through thewoodsislitteredwithbloodiedroadkill.
Sometimesjusticeis just roadkillalongsidetheroad.
At the end of Treasury Questions, the Chamber isdottedwith roadkill.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesOn the road: accidents involving vehicles
anti-collision
bird strike
brake
car crash
crash-landing
cropper
derail
derailment
overshoot
prang
rear-end
road toll
RTA
rubbernecking
run(something)intosomething/someone
runsomeone/somethingdown
runsomeone/somethingover
shunt
stack
stack up
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Death and dyingDestroying and demolishing(Definition ofroadkillfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/roadkill##
