Newfoundland speed bump

English

Noun

Newfoundland speed bump (plural Newfoundland speed bumps)

1. (Canada, humorous) A moose, especially one which is in a roadway.
   • 1992 August 16, Jack Schnedler, “On the Edge in Newfoundland”, in Chicago Sun-Times, page 1:

     [W]e bought a widely sold poster with the caption "Newfoundland Speed Bump" above the photograph of an ornately antlered bull moose halting traffic.

   • 2009, Eric Harris, “Editor's notebook: To the Tablelands,”, in Canadian Geographic, volume 129, number 5, page 9:

     He pitched his first freelance feature to Canadian Geographic . . . a cover story about the province's plaguelike overpopulation of moose, also known as Newfoundland speed bumps.