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UK
/ɹˈəʊdkɪl/
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NOUN
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the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle
vultures usually feed on carrion or roadkill
How To Use roadkill In A Sentence
- Regin downshifted, tires squealing as she swerved to dodge a roadkill-bound possum. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
- Now, why would one want to carve up roadkilled or poached antelope carcasses you might ask? Grouse Diary Entry
- Deer Dehorning Scandal: Citizens raise a ruckus after police remove antlers of roadkilled buck | Field & Stream Deer Dehorning Scandal: Citizens raise a ruckus after police remove antlers of roadkilled buck
- In Perl 5, parsing is an event unto itself, and actions are roadkill on the way to the Big City, using an extended syntax that is proven to confuse cats at a distance.
- A young male roadkilled cougar wouldn't neccesrally indicate a local breeding population, but would perhaps suggest that there was a breeding population within say 100 miles or so (young lions are stealthy and can travel far). Are There Breeding Cougars in Minnesota?
- While Mr. Ringen's friends goad him with nicknames like "Doctor Roadkill, " he is not alone in his peculiar pursuit.
- There's no regular German word for "roadkill" - it's an American concept, though I'm sure they run animals over on the autobahn. Buchlein Dieb (Little Book Thief)
- Deer Dehorning Scandal: Citizens raise a ruckus after police remove antlers of roadkilled buck Deer Dehorning Scandal: Citizens raise a ruckus after police remove antlers of roadkilled buck
- After owls, U.K. government figures identify kestrels, common buzzards, and peregrine falcons as other raptors most likely to end up as roadkill.
- Update, 5/26: "That Jolie can act as well as pout is finally proved by this French-accented turn, moving and modulated, as the woman whose husband became roadkill on the roadmap to a never-never Middle East peace process," writes Nigel Andrews in the Financial Times. GreenCine Daily: Cannes. A Mighty Heart.