- pileup
- noun Date: circa 1929 1. a collision involving usually several motor vehicles 2. a. a jammed tangled mass or pile (as of motor vehicles or people) resulting from collision or accumulation b. accumulation
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pileup — index collision (accident) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
pileup — [pīl′up΄] n. 1. an accumulation as of burdensome tasks 2. Informal a collision involving several vehicles … English World dictionary
pileup — n. a wreck; a vehicular crash where more than one vehicle is heavily damaged. □ There is a serious pileup on the expressway. □ My car was ruined in a pileup on the highway … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
pileup — noun a terrible pileup on I 95 Syn: crash, multiple crash, collision, multiple collision, smash, accident, road accident, wreck; informal smash up … Thesaurus of popular words
pileup or pile-up — pile|up or pile up [ paılʌp ] noun count 1. ) an accident in which several vehicles crash into each other 2. ) a situation in which there are a lot of things that need to be dealt with at the same time: a massive pileup of data … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
pileup — /puyl up /, n. 1. a massive collision of several or many moving vehicles. 2. an accumulation, as of work, chores, or bills. 3. a rough or disorderly falling of people upon one another, as in a football game. [1825 35; n. use of v. phrase pile up] … Universalium
pileup — Synonyms and related words: accident, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack up, crash, disaster, grief, ill hap, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup,… … Moby Thesaurus
pileup — (Roget s Thesaurus II) (or pile up) noun Informal. A wrecking of a vehicle: crash, smash, smashup, wreck. Informal: crackup. See HELP … English dictionary for students
pileup — n. collision, crash; road accident involving many vehicles … English contemporary dictionary
pileup — n 1. accumulation, congeries, amassment, 5. sarcastic, caustic, mordant, acerbic, acrid, cutting, stinging, mordacious, incisive; cruel, painful, hurtful, agonizing, excruciating; intense, fierce … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
