Coat-tail
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coat-tail is a noun meaning Alternative form of coattail.
Meaning
Alternative form of coattail.
Example Sentences
He paced the floor uneasily, his hands under his coat-tails.
He loved Rick and gave the best years of his life, now to roistering with him, now to hanging on to his coat-tails.
He could merely urge his heavy bulk onward toward the fast fleeing train; and dashed up the platform, overcoat streaming from his arm, coat-tails flying, hat crushed down upon his head, his fat, bechalked legs rumbling heavily after him.
Mr Obama’s coat-tails may help lift Wall-Street-basher Elizabeth Warren past pickup-driving Everyman and one-time nude pin-up Scott Brown in Massachusetts, despite Ms Warren’s inability to substantiate her claim that she has native American forebears.
Word Forms
- coat-tails
- coat-tailing
- coat-tailed
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