Usually means: Accumulation of objects or vehicles.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word pile up:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. pile up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pile up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pile-up, pile-up, pile up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pile up: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pile-Up, pile-up: Wordnik
  6. pile-up, pile (sth) up, pile up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pile-up, pile up: Wiktionary
  8. pile-up, pile up: Dictionary.com
  9. Pile-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. pile up: Rhymezone
  11. pile up: FreeDictionary.org
  12. pile up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. pile-up, pile up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pile up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pile up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pile up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pile up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pile-up, pile up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See pile_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pile up)

verb:  (transitive) To form a pile, stack, or heap.
verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.

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