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roadkill

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for roadkill.

Editorial note

Of course, venison is cheapest, if you're willing to kill it yourself/eat fresh roadkill/get the excess from hunting friends.

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Quick take

(by extension) A helpless victim.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of roadkill gathered in one view.

noun

(by extension) A helpless victim.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for roadkill.

noun

(by extension) A helpless victim.

Example sentences

1

Of course, venison is cheapest, if you're willing to kill it yourself/eat fresh roadkill/get the excess from hunting friends.

2

Who likes to hear that management is already planning to continue your work after you are found to be roadkill?

3

If you don't hunt the animals for meat, they are liable to become roadkill.

4

One idea I've thought of to eliminate roadkill/keep them in the woods is to have some type of high pitched sonar attached to the outside of your car.

5

We can't all -- we can't even 1% of us -- live in caves and eat roadkill.

6

So your thoughts are that roadkill is an effective population control for deer?

7

I do recall him suggesting that he mostly lives in caves and scavenges and eats roadkill.

8

Everyone hopes for one of those jobs where you really enjoy what you're doing but no one concludes the job for them is roadkill collector.

9

Now there's a competitive cultural expectation that you need to invest in your children's development daily, so they become socially self-realized and not economic roadkill.

10

The logo would be a circle of vultures above some roadkill.

11

I recall my personal roadkill website I had back in 1996 as a 6th grader.

12

So yeah, the FDA caters to big industry, and the meat coming out of feedlots is scarier than your typical roadkill, but this is pretty well-known.

Quote examples

1

Our industry has a pervading attitude of treating anybody who is not "us" as roadkill on the highway to progress.

2

"scavenges roadkill" - Which exists because people built roads and people drive there.

3

But we're certainly "roadkill on the Information Superhighway", and I don't, for example, see this being addressed by the White House/FCC proposed 300+ pages of new regulations.

4

There are lots of choices other than "You can have the NSA we have today, or you can be roadkill." (It's also unclear that the "OMG terrorist" argument is valid -- like "think of the children," I'm pretty sick of unexamined arguments that appear to be rooted in creating fear).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use roadkill in a sentence?

Of course, venison is cheapest, if you're willing to kill it yourself/eat fresh roadkill/get the excess from hunting friends.

What does roadkill mean?

(by extension) A helpless victim.

What part of speech is roadkill?

roadkill is commonly used as noun.