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Usage examples of tailgate.

The trucks in front of him each held a pair of missiles, their noses pointing over the downfolded tailgates.

A place where any and all off-duty lawmen were welcome to sit on the tailgates of pickup trucks, drink beer, eat fajitas and shoot the breeze.

Once the Rottweilers were secured on leashes, Kalo had hustled them into the camper truck and locked the tailgate.

Her first reply was drowned out by the lugging of the pickup truck that had tailgated Luke since the Madrone turn.

Used to transport bodies, the car was oversize, the tailgate window discreetly covered with a screen, and in back was a removable plyboard floor that required hosing down several times a week.

The Gurulos regrouped at their truck, swinging sacks over the tailgate, the kids scrambled into the back, and Esquipula and sulky Fructosa, bidding Snuffy a forlorn adios, hoisted themselves wearily into the cab.

There was little traffic, and when a light-colored carryall tailgated him briefly, he glanced back annoyed in his rearview mirror.

Her voice held a trace of a drawl that told me she’d grown up in the southern confines of the state, where country-club candidacies and bridal registrations still dominated the conversations at brunches, luncheons, tailgate parties, and pink teas.

Desi the First tackled Sam perilously close to the lowered tailgate of A pickup truck, while Desi the Second held Devereaux's head and, ripping off his tie, stuffed it into his mouth.

The whippet started to whine almost immediately and he dosed the tailgate quickly and went back to the presbytery.

The whippet tried to follow, but he managed to shove it back inside with his free hand and dosed the tailgate again.

Joining with the Bushlands they set up a tailgate spread of ham, potato salad, baked beans, coleslaw, olives, dill pickles, pumpkin tarts, and chocolate cake.

Doogie was still putting the Hummer through quick serpentine maneuvers, and at the tailgate, the monkey hanging upside down from the roof rack swung back and forth across the unbroken window, as if it were a clock pendulum.

Agents were restless and boisterous around the back of the open tailgate of the supertruck with its shiny aluminum interior divided into shelves and jump seats, and its outside compartments packed with reels of yellow crime-scene tape, and dustpans, picks, floodlights, whisk brooms, wrecking bars, and chop saws.

Annendale slid the squirrel's cage into the cargo bed of the station wagon, closed the tailgate, and put up the electric window.