roadkill :

Search Words
You can search or browse for words

roadkill


  • n  the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle
    vultures usually feed on carrion or roadkill

  • In 2008, Wall Street was wounded, Detroit was roadkill, but Hollywood kept cruising along.
  • Get Charged!, the hippest destination for electric cars, is about to become roadkill Hobbies Don't be the last kid on the block to get the Cadillac of weather balloons.
  • The primary process is one reason that political insurgents almost always end up as roadkill.
Quotes

  • Ian Binnie in Globe and Mail
    For people to just put us out for dead, roadkill, for that door to just open up just one more time for us, you never want to give a team another opportunity, because when that team gets in, it could be that team that you talk about that you don't... Donovan McNabb http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan_McNabb&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFbuKijmOPuesBaOligysiMaXp5CQ International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/30/sports/FBN-Playoff-Bound-Eagles.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEeicCzWO5cUBUJat19S4dWEeMbyw Dec 29, 2008 84343 112086 roadkill An individual's reputation is not to be treated as regrettable but unavoidable roadkill on the highway of public controversy, but nor should an overly solicitous regard for personal reputation be permitted to 'chill' freewheeling debate on matters...
  • Edward Markey in NPR
    Markey said it was a matter of the government "making sure that innocent victims are not roadkill."

Bee Dictionary: Search, browse, look at common errors, idioms and more.