road kill

Noun

roadkill (usually uncountable, plural roadkills)

1. (US, usually) The killing of an animal by a road vehicle.
   1. (US, usually) A successful kill in a deathmatch game by hitting an opponent with a road vehicle. A point or score (when considered collectively) gained by successfully killing opponents by a road vehiclein a deathmatch game.
2. (US, usually) The animal or animals so killed.
   • The van was heading straight for her and travelling faster and faster by the second. Zoe had to do something or she would be roadkill.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   road pizza

3. (broadly, usually) A helpless victim.