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Multiple car crash
Answer for the clue "Multiple car crash ", 7 letters:
pile-up
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Word definitions for pile-up in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a motorway pile-up (= when several cars on a motorway crash into each other ) ▪ a news report of a motorway pile-up on the M25 EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a multiple pile-up involving a minibus and five cars ▪ Slick ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"multi-vehicle crash," 1929, from verbal phrase pile up , which is from 1849 as "accumulate," 1899 as "to wreck in a heap" (see pile (v.)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (senseid en traffic accident)(context idiomatic colloquial English) A traffic accident or collision involving multiple vehicles.
Usage examples of pile-up.
The roadnet braked the cars behind, but not fast enough to prevent a spectacular pile-up.
On the other hand Chawe wasn't likely to shoot him at this speed and risk the sudden loss of control and the inevitable pile-up.
There had been a pile-up on the island, a car and a van meeting head-on, an articulated lorry ploughing the wreckage up on to the concrete, flattening it, a body in the road.
There was one of those churning, drowning pile-ups at the penultimate jump.
Where the stones had fallen from the broken span, there were pile-ups of captured drift.
They surveyed the pile-ups in a knowledgeable, confidence-inspiring way, unrolled stretchers, and prepared to advance.
A sudden thunderstorm had been responsible for a motorway pile-up (no, the stupid bloody drivers were to blame for that, but right now that wasn't important), and as a result a vanload of poisonous snakes had crashed and the reptiles were on the loose.
But in the flesh he resembled a genetic pile-up between Struwwelpeter and Uriah Heep.