tailgate

See also: Tailgate

English

Etymology

From tail +‎ gate.

a pickup truck with an open tailgate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪlˌɡeɪt/

Noun

The tailgates of Camden Lock are in the foreground.

tailgate (plural tailgates)

1. A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailboard.
2. (British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
3. Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• (hatch at rear of vehicle): tailgate party

Translations

hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle

• Chinese:

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• Danish: bagsmæk c, baglåge c
• Dutch: laadklep (nl)
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• Finnish: perälauta (fi)
• French: hayon (fr) m
• German: Heckklappe (de) f
• Irish: clár deiridh m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
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• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: driéthe m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bakluke m or f

  Nynorsk: bakluke f

• Russian: за́дний откидно́й борт m (zádnij otkidnój bort)
• Spanish: puerta trasera f
• Swedish: bakdörr (sv) c

either of the downstream gates in a canal lock

• Finnish: alaportti
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• Russian: спускно́й шлюз m (spusknój šljuz)
• Swedish: slussport c

See also

• tailgate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• security distance

Verb

“No tailgating” sign.

tailgate (third-person singular simple present tailgat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle tailgated)

1. (automotive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.

   That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.

2. To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
3. (finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
4. (US) To have a tailgate party.

Synonyms

• (access control): piggyback, draft

Coordinate terms

• (buying or selling a security): front run

Translations

drive dangerously close behind another vehicle

• Danish: køre uden sikkerhedsafstand
• Dutch: bumperkleven (nl), kleven (nl)
• Finnish: roikkua perässä
• French: (informal) coller (fr), (colloquial) coller aux basques (fr), (colloquial) coller au cul (fr)
• German: dicht auffahren, drängeln (de), fahren ohne Sicherheitsabstand
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• Latin: (literally, to tail closely) prope insequi
• Russian: не соблюда́ть диста́нцию impf (ne sobljudátʹ distánciju), не соблюсти́ диста́нцию pf (ne sobljustí distánciju)
• Spanish: chupar rueda, conducir pegado a, conducir muy cerca de otro vehículo, conducir sin distancia de seguridad
• Vietnamese: bám sát đuôi, dí đít (slang)

to follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader

• Russian: проходить (ru) (proxoditʹ) паровозиком (ru) (parovozikom) (informal)
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See also

• Tailgate (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia