pile-up
noun/ˈpaɪl ʌp/
/ˈpaɪl ʌp/
- a road accident involving several vehicles crashing into each other
- Three people died in a multiple pile-up in freezing fog.
- A young man died in a pile-up on the M1 last night.
- a multiple pile-up involving a minibus and five cars
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- multi-car
- multiple
- massive
- …
- cause
- in a/the pile-up
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