roadkill
roadkill
Definition
road·kill (rōd′kil′)
noun
Slang the body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a passing vehicle
roadkill
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- eat: Meat needs to be hung for anything from 1-4 weeks before it is edible, so I see nothing wrong with humans eating roadkill.
- collect: One is a blood-splattered redneck who collects roadkill, dumping the bodies of dead deer into a fetid carcass swamp.
Modifies a noun
- prevalence: Here is a graph of the correlation between badger roadkill tuberculosis prevalence and cattle tuberculosis incidence.
Noun used with modifier
- badger: Here is a graph of the correlation between badger roadkill tuberculosis prevalence and cattle tuberculosis incidence.
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