Tailgate
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:9 ptsWWF:11 pts8 letters
Definition of Tailgate
Noun
- 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."
- The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
"Open up the tailgate, please, and retrieve her suitcases."
- The downstream gate in the lock on a canal or river, or in an irrigation system.
"The locktender closed the tailgate and the chamber started to fill."
- Ellipsis of tailgate party.
"Are you coming to the tailgate? We'll be grilling brisket."
- A tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
Verb
- To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
"That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes."
- To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
- To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
- To have a tailgate party.
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