Definitions for tailgates

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tailgates tail·gate

Spelling: [teyl-geyt]

IPA: /ˈteɪlˌgeɪt/

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

You can make 384 anagrams from letters in tailgates (aaegilstt).

Definitions for tailgates

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 tailgates

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

Examples for tailgates

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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