pile-up

See also pile up, and pileup

English

Noun

Wikipedia pile-up (plural pile-ups)

1. (idiomatic) (colloquial) A traffic accident or collision involving multiple vehicles.

   Traffic was backed up for miles due to a twelve-car pile-up on the freeway earlier today.

Translations

traffic accident

• Finnish: ketjukolari (fi)
• French: carambolage (fr) m
• German: Auffahrunfall (de) m
• Hungarian: tömegkarambol (hu)

• Italian: tamponamento (it) m
• Japanese: 玉突き (ja) (tamatsuki)
• Russian: столкновение (ru) (stolknovénije) n
• Spanish: choque múltiple (es) m

See also

• pile up

Anagrams

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