tailgate, tailboard
(noun) a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading
tailgate
(verb) follow at a dangerously close distance; “it is dangerous to tailgate another vehicle”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tailgate (plural tailgates)
A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailboard.
(British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock.
tailgate (third-person singular simple present tailgates, present participle tailgating, simple past and past participle tailgated)
(automotive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
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.
(finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
(US) To have a tailgate party.
• (access control): piggyback, draft
• (buying or selling a security): front run
Tailgate
synonym of Monicagate
Source: Wiktionary
11 February 2025
(noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
