Definitions
follow at a dangerously close distance
Word origin
From tail + gate. Compare liftgate.
Used in a sentence
“Drop the tailgate, please, and I'll load these pallets.”
“When they first attached tailgates to cars, we were hooked. By the 1970s, wagons with names like Vista Cruiser and Town & Country sported tailgates as big as dining tables.”
“Open up the tailgate, please, and retrieve her suitcases.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Follow too closely”8 letters
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