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单词 roadkill
释义

roadkill

noun

road·​kill ˈrōd-ˌkil How to pronounce roadkill (audio)
1
: the remains of an animal that has been killed on a road by a motor vehicle
2
: one that falls victim to intense competition
political roadkill
road-killed
ˈrōd-ˌkild How to pronounce roadkill (audio)
adjective

Example Sentences

There is a lot of roadkill along the highway.
Recent Examples on the Web Yet in places where there are wildlife crossings and roadside fencing, roadkill has dramatically reduced. Nell Lewis, CNN, 4 July 2022 Not holding herself too far apart from the others has an equalizing effect, even before the Giant (voiced by Annie Golden) starts making indiscriminate roadkill of the lot. Naveen Kumar, Variety, 10 July 2022 One call came simply to report roadkill on their street. Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 July 2022 About 15,000 pounds of roadkill was returned to its natural habitat Monday after a tractor-trailer transporting hot dog filler (sometimes called pink slime) and other meat products crashed on a Pennsylvania highway, spilling the cargo onto the road. al, 31 May 2022 CarrieAnn Young was passing the cafeteria at her job in early March when the smell hit her: roadkill. Andrea Ball, USA TODAY, 21 May 2022 Thirty states in the U.S. allow people to collect roadkill as food. Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2022 There are myriad arguments for and against eating roadkill. Katherine Lagrave, Outside Online, 20 July 2020 In Israel, a roadkill mapping project relies on a feature in the navigation app Waze. Menno Schilthuizen, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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