tail
- noun
- /teɪl/
- You boys ready to play a little Pin the Tail on the Donkey?
- heads or tails
Why should it be heads they win, tails taxpayers lose.
- Why should it be heads they win, tails taxpayers lose.
- A heads I win, tails you lose situation.
- And what they'll do is they'll say heads, heads, tails, tails, heads.
- There could be heads, heads, heads, tails, tails, heads, tails, tails.
- The four possible outcomes are heads, heads, heads, tails, tails, heads and tails tails.
- So we all know coins, head, tails, they'd all been defaced on the head.
- So heads, tails, heads or tails, tails, tails, tails, tails, tails, tails, tails, tails.
Examples
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The combination reminded me of gulls wrestling over fries and battered shrimp tails at the canteen trash can.
Fiction book (1996) -
Heads or tails?
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Or we could start with one head, one tail, and do this.
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If the last two states were heads, tails, then it goes to heads.
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So roughly half is heads, half is tails going to different parts of the room.
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The first game Mrs. Shevvington organized was Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
Fiction book (1990) -
How, in their delightful confusion, the dogs had growled and wagged their tails at once.
Fiction book (2002) -
It is tails.
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It was tails!
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When you flip a coin, one side shows heads and the other side shows tails.
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Compounds
- UK
A tall marsh plant with a brown sausage-shaped seed head and long flat leaves used for making mats and seats
- Specialized
A small spinning blade at the tail of a helicopter that keeps it from spinning
- Specialized
A market where many rare items, each sold in small numbers, together make a large part of sales
- Specialized
A vertical surface at the plane's tail that helps keep it steady in flight
A small brown and white moth whose caterpillars eat the leaves of fruit and shade trees
- Specialized
A large animal with sharp spines and a brush of stiff hairs at the end of its tail
- Specialized
A group of herbs that have a strong smell and live for many years
- Specialized
A flat surface at the tail of a plane that keeps the nose level and controls up-and-down movement
- Specialized
A thin metal tool with a round taper used to smooth small round holes and curves
- UK
A small brown tree shrew from Malaysia with a bare tail fringed by stiff hairs at the tip
- Specialized
A tail design for an aircraft with four moving parts in an X shape that help control its direction
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tail is used for the back side of a coin because it means 'rear' or the opposite of the head, so 'tails' is the coin's back side.