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1.NounA 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."
2.NounThe hinged rear door of a hatchback."Open up the tailgate, please, and retrieve her suitcases."
3.NounThe 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."
4.NounEllipsis of tailgate party."Are you coming to the tailgate? We'll be grilling brisket."
5.NounA tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
6.VerbTo drive dangerously close behind another vehicle."That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes."
7.VerbTo 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.
8.VerbTo privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
9.VerbTo have a tailgate party.