Definitions for tailgate

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tailgate tail·gate

Spelling: [teyl-geyt]

IPA: /ˈteɪlˌgeɪt/

Tailgate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in tailgate (aaegiltt).

Definitions for tailgate

noun

1. the board or gate at the back of a wagon, truck, station wagon, etc., which can be removed or let down for convenience in loading or unloading.
2. a style of playing the trombone, especially in Dixieland jazz, distinguished especially by the use of melodic counterpoint and long glissandi.

adjective

1. pertaining to or set up on a tailgate:

verb (used with object)

1. to follow or drive hazardously close to the rear of (another vehicle).

verb (used without object)

1. to follow or drive hazardously close to the rear of another vehicle.

Origin of tailgate

An Americanism dating back to 1850-55; tail¹ + gate¹

Examples for tailgate

A number of adults at the tailgate Party are wearing orange T-shirts printed with the words “See You at the Pole Event Staff.”

Except for the unhappy expressions on their faces, they looked like they had settled in for a tailgate party.

The truck was decades old, and it lacked a tailgate so the people in back were crammed together to avoid falling out.

Our cars will chide us if we tailgate and watch us as we drive and jolt us awake if are distracted or drifting off to sleep.

On the tailgate was spread, three times a day, the jolly good meals that pioneer mothers knew how to cook.

The hounds were snapping furiously as they tried to leap over the tailgate.

There was a tailgate lowered, forming a ramp; above it, the huge double doors opened on a cavern of blackness.