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"Tailgate" Definition

noun

A hinged board or closure at the rear of a vehicle, such as a pick-up truck, that can be lowered during loading and unloading. Also called tailboard.
One of the pair of gates downstream in a canal lock.
A board or gate at the rear of a vehicle that can be removed or let down (as for loading).
A jazz trombone style marked by much use of slides to and from long sustained tones.

verb-transitive

Slang To follow closely behind (another person), as in gaining access to an area requiring the use of an electronic identification card.
To drive so closely behind (another vehicle) that one cannot stop or swerve with ease in an emergency.

verb-intransitive

To follow another vehicle too closely.
To participate in a picnic that is served from the tailgate of a vehicle, as before a sports event.

verb

To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
To hold a tailgate picnic.
To drive dangerously close behind.

adjective

Relating to or being a picnic set up on the tailgate especially of a station wagon.

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