tailgate
See also: Tailgate
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
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tailgate (plural tailgates)
- A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailboard.
- (British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
- 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
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either of the downstream gates in a canal lock
See also
tailgate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- security distance
Verb
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tailgate (third-person singular simple present tailgat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle tailgated)
- (automotive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
- That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.
- 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.
- (finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
- (US) To have a tailgate party.
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
- (buying or selling a security): front run
Translations
drive dangerously close behind another vehicle
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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
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See also
Tailgate (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia