Definitions for tailed

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tailed tailed

Spelling: [teyld]

IPA: /teɪld/

Tailed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in tailed (adeilt).

Definitions for tailed

noun

1. the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
2. something resembling or suggesting this in shape or position:
3. Astronomy. the luminous stream extending from the head of a comet.
4. the reverse of a coin (opposed to head).
5. Aeronautics. the after portion of an airplane or the like.
6. tails. tail coat. the tapering skirts or ends at the back of a coat, especially a tail coat. men's full-dress attire. Distilling. alcohol obtained in the final distillation. Compare head (def 22).
7. Slang. the buttocks or rump.
8. Informal. a person who trails or keeps a close surveillance of another, as a detective or spy:
9. Informal. the trail of a fleeing person or animal:
10. Slang: Vulgar. sexual intercourse. Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a woman considered as a sex object.
11. the hinder, bottom, or end part of anything; the rear.
12. a final or concluding part of a sentence, conversation, social gathering, etc.; conclusion; end:
13. the inferior or unwanted part of anything.
14. a long braid or tress of hair.
15. an arrangement of objects or persons extending as or as if a tail.
16. a line of persons awaiting their turns at something; queue.
17. a retinue; train.
18. the lower part of a pool or stream.
19. the exposed portion of a piece of roofing, as a slate.
20. Printing, Bookbinding. the bottom of a page or book.
21. Printing. the lower portion of a type, as of g, y, or Q.

Idioms

1. turn tail, to turn one's back on, as in aversion or fright. to run away from difficulty, opposition, etc.; flee:
2. with one's tail between one's legs, utterly humiliated; defeated; cowed:

adjective

1. having a tail.
2. having a tail of a specified kind (usually used in combination):
3. coming from behind:
4. being in the back or rear:

verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to follow in order to hinder escape of or to observe:
2. to form or furnish with a tail.
3. to form or constitute the tail or end of (a procession, retinue, etc.).
4. to terminate; come after or behind; follow like a tail.
5. to join or attach (one thing) at the tail or end of another.
6. Building Trades. to fasten (a beam, stone, etc.) by one end (usually followed by in or into).
7. to dock the tail of (a horse, dog, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to follow close behind:
2. to disappear gradually or merge into:
3. to form, or move or pass in, a line or column suggestive of a tail:
4. (of a boat) to have or take a position with the stern in a particular direction.
5. Building Trades. (of a beam, stone, etc.) to be fastened by one end (usually followed by in or into).

Origin of tailed

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at tail¹, -ed³

Examples for tailed

One British reporter who tailed him through the day said he was “somewhat robotic—not particularly presidential.”

They moved slower than their tailed and finned brothers, I noticed.

Some of them got so weak that they had to be "tailed" up as it was called.

By-and-by they will be fledged, and tailed, and get wing-feathers, and fly.

In both forms the females are tailed, and resemble the males.

Note particularly the slope of the topped and tailed letters.

And it was tailed, and being freed from the hook was not slow in shooting into the depths.

In a minute or two they came out of the house together, and I tailed them.

Everywhere I've been for the last two days, barber shop and all, I've been tailed.

He wore pearl-gray trousers, a tailed coat, and had a pink in his buttonhole.