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tailgate definition

☆ tail·gate (-gāt′)

noun

a board or gate at the back of a wagon, truck, station wagon, etc., designed to be removed or swung open on hinges for loading or unloading

transitive verb tailgated -·gat′ed, tailgating -·gat′·ing

to drive too closely behind (another vehicle)

intransitive verb

  1. to drive too closely behind another vehicle

  2. Etymology: so called because the meal was orig. served on the tailgate

    to picnic at or near one's automobile or in a parking lot, as before a sporting event

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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