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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An animal or animals killed by being struck by a motor vehicle.
  2. n. Slang One that has failed or been defeated and is no longer worthy of consideration: "Many radio rightists betray a truculent nostalgia for the old foes who became their roadkill” ( Richard Corliss).

Wiktionary

  1. n. the killing of an animal by a road vehicle
  2. n. the animal(s) so killed
  3. n. by extension a helpless victim

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The body of an animal killed by a vehicle on a road. Also used metaphorically.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle

Etymologies

  1. A road +‎ kill (Wiktionary)

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