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roadkill

/ ˈrəʊdˌkɪl /

noun

  1. the remains of an animal or animals killed on the road by motor vehicles

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is sticky sweet and sludgy and so cloyingly aesthetic that the roadkill bleeds ropes of twee entrails.

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Squirrels typically eat acorns, seeds, nuts and fruit, but are known to occasionally eat fresh carrion or roadkill, insects, eggs or other discarded food.

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This is a man who, even aside from the worm in his brain and his propensity for collecting roadkill, is one of the biggest conspiracy theorists in the country.

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Someone — forgive the reference to other strange RFK Jr. stories — is bound to end up as roadkill.

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The interview itself is often described as a “car crash” - but in this version, the prince's reputation is more like roadkill.

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