Crossword clues for pileup
pileup
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of pile-up English)
WordNet
n. multiple collisions of vehicles
Wikipedia
A pileup can refer to:
- Multiple-vehicle collision
- In nuclear and particle physics, a situation where a particle detector is affected by several events at the same time.
- In ham radio, particularly in DXing slang, the presence of many ham operators trying to communicate with a distant entity, all in the same time.
- Pile Up, an album by queercore band Pansy Division
- Pileup format, a file format used in the field of Bioinformatics
Usage examples of "pileup".
As well as in some of the suburbs, causing multiple pileups as vehicles hydroplaned and trucks jackknifed on the expressway.
Richard remembers a few years ago on the Port Mann bridge where he witnessed a five-car pileup coming the other waythat same combination of being special and thrilled.
Monde when it was really only a multiple beignet pileup on the interstate.
The pileup of busses, the tourists led about in clusters by guides, did not bother him here.
Maneuvering the car past a pileup of snorting busses, Pasternak almost shouted, "Not much, not my field.
Then there would be many long minutes of commercials, mostly for products to keep one's bowels sleek, followed by filmed reports on regional murders, house fires, light airplane crashes, multiple car pileups on the Boulder Highway and other bits of local carnage, always with film of mangled vehicles, charred houses, bodies under blankets and a group of children standing on the fringes, waving happily at the cameras and saying hi to their moms.
The only things that surpassed them for diversion value were multiple-car pileups with bodies strewn about the highway.
But the scene below was reminiscent of the motorway pileups that had still blighted Britain during her childhood in the 1990s.
There was still no official estimate of how many lives had been saved from fires, or stranding in Underground tunnels, or road pileups, or the lethal mundanity of being trapped in stuck elevators.
The highway itself is colorless and the sides of it look chewed on, and there's litter, and the median strip is dead grass with a whole lot of different tiretracks and skidmarks striping the sod for dozens of miles, as if from the mother of all multivehicle pileups sometime in I-26's past.
As they always did in pileups, things happened very fast and seemed to happen very slowly.