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Newfoundland speed bump en · NOUN
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(Canada, humorous) A moose, especially one which is in a roadway.
[W]e bought a widely sold poster with the caption "Newfoundland Speed Bump" above the photograph of an ornately antlered bull moose halting traffic.
1992 August 16, Jack Schnedler, “On the Edge in Newfoundland”, in Chicago Sun-Times, page 1:He pitched his first freelance feature to Canadian Geographic . . . a cover story about the province's plaguelike overpopulation of moose, also known as Newfoundland speed bumps.
2009, Eric Harris, “Editor's notebook: To the Tablelands,”, in Canadian Geographic, volume 129, number 5, page 9:
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