pile-up

See also: pile up and pileup

English

Etymology

From the verb phrase pile up.

Noun

pile-up (plural pile-ups)

(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

Chinese:
Mandarin: 連環車禍
Finnish: ketjukolari (fi)
French: carambolage (fr) m
German: Auffahrunfall (de) m
Greek: καραμπόλα (el) f (karampóla)
Hungarian: tömegkarambol

Italian: tamponamento (it) m
Japanese: 玉突き (tamatsuki)
Polish: karambol (pl) m
Portuguese: engavetamento (pt) m
Russian: столкнове́ние (ru) n (stolknovénije)
Spanish: choque múltiple m
Tagalog: karambola

See also

pile up

Anagrams

luppie, uppile

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