pile up

Definitions

1. 1

   To form a pile, stack, or heap.

   • The kids piled up their boots and coats by the back door.
   • In the Norwegian district of Tellemarken a cairn is piled up wherever anything fearful has happened, and every passer-by must throw another stone on it, or some evil will befall him.
2. 2

   To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.

   • The requests piled up while she was away.
   • There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.
3. 3

   To sustain a motor vehicle accident

   To sustain a motor vehicle accident; to crash.

   • Seven cars piled up in a concertina smash on the Pacific Highway this morning about four miles on the Brisbane side of Southport.

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