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coattail

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8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aacilottStarts with CEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist

Word origin

From coat + tail.

Used in a sentence

  • to ride the coattails
  • Mr Obama’s coat-tails may help lift Wall-Street-basher Elizabeth Warren past pickup-driving Everyman and one-time nude pin-up Scott Brown in Massachusetts[…].
  • And Harford grabs the coattails of the trend, giving us 10 rules for thinking differently about numbers in the news, ranging from “check your feelings”, to “ponder your personal experience”, to “keep an open mind”.

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