Crossword clues for roadkill
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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'' (a person or corporation defeated by others more expert at using the internet).
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
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 become the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how it can be mitigated. Some roadkill can also be eaten.
Michael DePoli (born August 10, 1976) is a retired professional wrestler best known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling. He worked for World Wrestling Entertainment in its Ohio Valley Wrestling developmental territory. He is best known as Roadkill, where his wrestling gear was traditional Amish dress and he was billed as being from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an area of large Amish population.
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".
RoadKill is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Terminal Reality and published in 2003 by Midway Games. The game has been described by Midway as “the only mission-based combat driving game set in a post-apocalyptic world.”
Roadkill is a live album released by the band Manilla Road in 1988 on Black Dragon Records.
Roadkill is a common reference to animals killed by impact with motor vehicles.
Roadkill or Road Kill may also refer to:
Roadkill is a 2011 telefilm. It was released on DVD on August 30, 2011. It stars Kacey Barnfield, Oliver James, Diarmuid Noyes and Stephen Rea. The film was shot on location in Ireland. It is the 24th film of the Maneater Series.
Roadkill is the first full-length studio album by Israeli punk band Kill the Drive, released on December 6, 2006.
It is the band's only album with guitarist Lavy Josephson who left the band in 2007, though he also appeared on the band's earlier demo Short Notice, which was released in February 2006.
Roadkill is an internet show produced by Motor Trend and Hot Rod magazine, two magazines from TEN: The Enthusiast Network. The show airs on Motor Trend's YouTube channel (titled Motor Trend Channel). Roadkill is hosted by David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan, Editor-in-Chief and Staff Editor respectively of Hot Rod Magazine. The show premiered on February 17, 2012 with Freiburger and Finnegan traveling from El Paso to Los Angeles in a Pontiac Catalina.
As of 2015, Roadkill is sponsored by the American automaker Dodge. In August 2015 it was announced that TEN: The Enthusiast Network would be publishing a quarterly magazine named "Roadkill" based on the show.
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.