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Creatures squashed on the motorway?
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roadkill
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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'' ...
Wikipedia
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Roadkill is a film by Canadian director Bruce McDonald , filmed and released in 1989. In a review of the film's soundtrack album, the website Allmusic calls the film "an increasingly weird mix of Heart of Darkness and The Wizard of Oz ".
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And that makes a big difference when you are selling roadkill . ▪ In Oregon, removal of a roadkill can carry a maximum fine of $ 2, 500 and a year in jail. ▪ Scavengers such as foxes, magpies and crows eat roadkill . ▪ They fly ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly US English) the killing of an animal by a road vehicle 2 (context chiefly US English) the animal(s) so killed 3 (context by extension English) a helpless victim
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.