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/ˈteɪlˌɡeɪt/ · noun
(automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading..
Drop the tailgate, please, and I'll load these pallets.
When they first attached tailgates to cars, we were hooked. By the 1970s, wagons with names like Vista Cruiser and Town & Country sported tailgates as big as dining tables.
Open up the tailgate, please, and retrieve her suitcases.
The locktender closed the tailgate and the chamber started to fill.
Are you coming to the tailgate? We'll be grilling brisket.
“You don’t want to be at a tailgate having fish and chips,” said Elanja O’Toole, who wore a San Diego Chargers jersey while her husband, Llian O’Toole, wore a St. Louis Rams jersey and face paint.
The website was created by Harry St. John, a former college athlete who wanted to take the agony out of managing tailgates.
That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.
Use tailgate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tailgate means (automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading..
Common synonyms include tailboard, hatch, piggyback, draft.
Possible antonyms include headgate.
Drop the tailgate, please, and I'll load these pallets.
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