tailgate
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈteɪlˌɡeɪt/
:
portón trasero
- After unloading the lumber, he lowered the tailgate of the truck for easier access.
- tailgate party
- truck tailgate
- open tailgate
And then we're sitting on the back of my tailgate crunching on a pork grind.
- And then we're sitting on the back of my tailgate crunching on a pork grind.
- It's all app based and playing through your tailgate with the car off.
Examples
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Then I jumped up into the bed and put down the tailgate.
Fiction book (1995) -
Jim starts to lift a package of shingles but gives up and sits on the tailgate.
Fiction book (1990) -
Yeah, I was sitting on the the tailgate of the truck.
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- Do you open the tailgate?
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So I go back up to my door, unlatch the tailgate, shut the door.
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"Outside in the driveway, she lowered the tailgate on her pickup.
Fiction book (1995) -
Hilmi closed the tailgate and joined Bulkin in the cab.
Fiction book (1996) -
Natural orchards, standing at the tailgate of his pickup truck and sorting through a box of apples.
Fiction book (1999) -
People would be arriving three or four hours before kick-off 'with their tailgates open at the back, barbecues going, flags waving.'
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Ali Baba tiptoes to the front of the wagon while Morgiana unlocks the tailgate.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
3
3.7
A door on a truck, plane, or ship that lets people load and unload goods
1
5.6
A rear door on a car or SUV that opens upward to reach the back area
A board at the back of a truck or van that lowers to help load boxes
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tailgate is made of tail ('back') and gate ('door'), so a truck or van tailgate is simply the 'back door' that you lower to load things or to sit on.