Tailgate

Quick meaning: Tailgate is a noun meaning (automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.

Meaning

(automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.

More Meanings

1. (especially British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
2. The downstream gate in the lock on a canal or river, or in an irrigation system.
3. (US) Ellipsis of tailgate party.
4. (mining) A tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
5. (automotive, intransitive, transitive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
6. (finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

Drop the tailgate, please, and I'll load these pallets.

Open up the tailgate, please, and retrieve her suitcases.

Are you coming to the tailgate? We'll be grilling brisket.

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

Word Forms

• tailgates
• tail-gate
• tail gate
• tailgating
• tailgated

Synonyms for tailgate

Depending on context, synonyms include tailboard, hatch, piggyback, draft.

Antonyms for tailgate

Common opposites include headgate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tailboard, fender, taillight, door, hatch, gate.

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