tails

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪlz

Noun

tails

1. plural of tail
2. (slang) Clipping of tailcoat.
   • Irving Berlin, chorus from Top Hat, White Tie and Tails

     So I'm putting on my top hat, tying on my white tie, brushing off my tails.

3. The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.

   Antonym: heads

   Tails, I win.

4. (mining) tailings; waste

Translations

tailcoat — see tailcoat

side of coin

• Arabic: نَقْش (ar) m (naqš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 背面 (zh) (bèimiàn), 反面 (zh) (fǎnmiàn)

• Finnish: klaava (fi)
• French: pile (fr) f
• German: Zahl (de) f
• Hawaiian: hiʻu
• Hebrew: פָּלִי m (páli)
• Hungarian: írás (hu)
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• Italian: code (it), croce (it) f
• Japanese: 裏 (ja) (うら, ura)
• Polish: reszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: coroa (pt) f
• Russian: ре́шка (ru) f (réška)
• Spanish: cruz (es) f, (Argentina) ceca f, (Mexico) águila (es)
• Swedish: klave (sv) c
• Vietnamese: mặt sấp

Verb

tails

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tail

Anagrams

• A list, A-list, Itals, Talsi, alist, itals, laits, litas, silat, stail