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means An animal killed on a road by a vehicle, and left lying there — also used loosely for anyone or anything crushed by something bigger and faster-moving than themselves, like a small business run over by a corporate merger.

from A straightforward 20th-century compound of 'road' plus 'kill,' born alongside the automobile itself — once cars became common enough to reliably flatten wildlife, English needed a word for the aftermath. First used literally for dead animals on highways, it picked up its figurative sense (a person or company crushed in someone else's path) by the later 20th century, as 'became roadkill' turned into a handy metaphor for collateral damage in business, politics, and office life.