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tailgate
1[ teyl-geyt ]
noun
- the board or gate at the back of a wagon, truck, station wagon, etc., which can be removed or let down for convenience in loading or unloading.
verb (used without object)
- to follow or drive hazardously close to the rear of another vehicle.
verb (used with object)
- to follow or drive hazardously close to the rear of (another vehicle).
adjective
- pertaining to or set up on a tailgate:
a tailgate picnic before the football game.
tailgate
2[ teyl-geyt ]
noun
- a style of playing the trombone, especially in Dixieland jazz, distinguished especially by the use of melodic counterpoint and long glissandi.
tailgate
/ ˈteɪlˌɡeɪt /
verb
- to drive very close behind (a vehicle)
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Derived Forms
- ˈtailˌgater, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tailgate2
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Example Sentences
Except for the unhappy expressions on their faces, they looked like they had settled in for a tailgate party.
A number of adults at the Tailgate Party are wearing orange T-shirts printed with the words “See You at the Pole Event Staff.”
The truck was decades old, and it lacked a tailgate so the people in back were crammed together to avoid falling out.
Our cars will chide us if we tailgate and watch us as we drive and jolt us awake if are distracted or drifting off to sleep.
There was a tailgate lowered, forming a ramp; above it, the huge double doors opened on a cavern of blackness.
On the tailgate was spread, three times a day, the jolly good meals that pioneer mothers knew how to cook.
The hounds were snapping furiously as they tried to leap over the tailgate.
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