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What (who) is pile up - definition

ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVOLVING MANY VEHICLES
Pileup; Multi-vehicle collision; Pile-up; Multiple vehicle collision; Pile up; Chain-reaction crash; Vehicle pileup
  • M4 Motorway]] in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]]
  • [[Emergency service]]s work on the scene of a multiple vehicle collision in [[Toronto]]

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ALBUM BY PANSY DIVISION
Smells Like Queer Spirit
1.
If you pile up a quantity of things or if they pile up, they gradually form a pile.
Bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt...
Mail was still piling up at the office.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V P
2.
If you pile up work, problems, or losses or if they pile up, you get more and more of them.
Problems were piling up at work...
He piled up huge debts.
PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P n (not pron)
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ALBUM BY PANSY DIVISION
Smells Like Queer Spirit
form a pile or large quantity.
Pile Up         
ALBUM BY PANSY DIVISION
Smells Like Queer Spirit
Pile Up is a compilation album by American queercore band Pansy Division, released on February 16, 1995, by Lookout! Records.

Wikipedia

Multiple-vehicle collision

A multiple vehicle collision (colloquially known as a pile-up, multi-car collision, multi-vehicle collision, or simply a multi) is a road traffic collision involving many vehicles. Generally occurring on high-capacity and high-speed routes such as freeways, they are one of the deadliest forms of traffic collisions. The most disastrous pileups have involved more than a hundred vehicles.

Examples of use of pile up
1. Road pile–up A road accident on the Attiki Odos yesterday afternoon caused a pile–up involving at least nine vehicles.
2. The stories of incompetence across different departments pile up.
3. Bureaucracy will run riot and complaints will pile up.
4. As small changes pile up, the virus‘s behavior can evolve.
5. Changes creep in and pile up without obvious effect.