Crossword clues for coattail
The Collaborative International Dictionary
coattail \coat"tail\ n. the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The flap at the back of a coat that hangs down, sometimes below the waist. 2 (lb en usually in the plural figurative) Success of a figure, organization or movement that transfers to those who associate with it.
WordNet
n. the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist
Usage examples of "coattail".
Then kicking the wounded basket a vicious blow with the toe of his boot, he spun on his heels, leaped on the bare back of the Andalusian stallion, and galloped off in a shower of churned-up sod and pollen spores, coattails flying.
Harmon was right out of sight in no time, and the last we saw of Abner Sharpies was his coattail flying through the air as his feet went out from under him on a sharp turn, and he went rolling down the hill like a barrel of lard.
He stood, and she must grab at his coattail or fall over, so natural was her inclination to step away that she almost felled them both.
The old man led the way, coattails flapping, heels ringing briskly on stone, leaving him at the doorway to the echoing Great Hall.
Blaine was a pure po-gue, a guy who got himself promoted off the street as soon as he became eligible, and had immediately latched on to the coattails of his predecessor, a bloodless, bean-counting Yuppie paper-pusher named Spier.
Why the devil was that fellow with the long coattails and the sagging glasses intruding on them?
A thin, ginger-haired man, who had been warming his coattails before the fire, hurried towards us.
The footman who had opened the door to us took our cards, and a moment later we were ushered across the hall into a handsome library where a tall, thin man with graying hair and a most melancholy countenance was warming his coattails before a blazing fire.
He was so overcome with gratitude that it seemed as if his very coattails wagged with his emotion.
Newburg that a beautiful at the next table is enjoying and in fact the swinging coattails wipe about half the portion off the plate onto the floor.
His arms flapping, feet stretched out behind him, he looked like a coattailed crane.
And Dominica intended to vault herself to fame and fortune on the coattails of their murderous partnership.
And snug against the small of his back, in a sheath worn sideways beneath his coattails, rode one of Sven Bailey's Bowie knives.
A quick snatch at the Bowie knife concealed under his coattails, a few slashing blows at harness straps, and the startled horse was free, front hooves coming up off the pavement as it tried to stand on rear legs.
It caught hold of the Sartan's coattails and tugged the reluctant Alfred, tripping and stumbling, into the room.