Usually means: Multiple vehicles crashed into each other.
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  1. pileup: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pileup: Merriam-Webster
  3. pileup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pileup: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pileup: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pileup, pileup: Wordnik
  7. pileup: Wiktionary
  8. pileup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pileup: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pileup: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pileup: Dictionary.com
  12. pileup: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Pileup: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pileup: Rhymezone
  15. pileup: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pileup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pileup: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pileup: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pileup: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pileup: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  Alternative spelling of pile-up [(colloquial) A pile, a group of people or things which have piled up on one another, especially]

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