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Opossum or raccoon seen on the highway shoulder, perhaps
Answer for the clue "Opossum or raccoon seen on the highway shoulder, perhaps ", 8 letters:
roadkill
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Roadkill is an animal or animals that have been struck and killed by motor vehicles on highways . It is important because of the loss of wild animals, road safety , and the economic impact on both drivers and road management. For this reason it has increasingly ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
roadkill \road"kill\, n. sing. & pl. The body of an animal killed by a vehicle on a road; as, it is illegal in most places for a restaurant to serve roadkill as food for people. Also used metaphorically; as, ``roadkill on the information superhighway'' ...
Usage examples of roadkill.
He was all set to give me his room which he shared with Roadkill, his girlfriend, while they decanted to the loft, but on viewing the room and the state of the plaster on the walls, I suggested that the loft might be more suitable for me, as I could rig my hammock safely between two of the roof trusses.
I recognized clubs from all up and down the Coast: Vampires, Roadkill, Black Widows—.
Most of the kids in Missing Mile had something weird about them: their fathers had died in the big fire at the old cotton mill, or their mothers worked as strippers in Raleigh, or they lived out on Violin Road and were so poor, the rumor went, that they had to eat roadkill.
Nearly all the citizenry of Harney had occasionally come across Skink and his fresh roadkills, and the general assumption was that he ate the dead critters, though no one could say for a fact.