Crossword clues for tailgate
tailgate
- Parking lot party
- Kind of football game party
- Drive dangerously, in a way
- Type of stadium party
- Time to get primed before the big game?
- Stadium party site
- Sports fans' party venue?
- Sports fans' party site
- Pregame festivity site, and a hint to the inserted letters at the starred answers' ends
- Party site, sometimes
- Party before the game
- Part of a pickup truck
- Outdoor party focal point
- Kind of pregame party
- Hold a parking lot party
- Get too near
- Follow a car too closely
- Drive too closely
- Drive too close
- Drive recklessly near
- Follow too closely
- Follow very closely
- Not keep one's distance, in a way
- Party in the parking lot
- Scandal that implicates a detective?
- Get too close, in a way
- A gate at the rear of a vehicle
- Can be lowered for loading
- Kind of picnic
- Follow another car too closely
- Follow a car closely
- What pushy drivers do to gain entrance to estate
- Soldiers smuggling gun into French island drive dangerously
- Drive too close, creating flap
- Type of party
- Pickup truck feature
- Pickup feature
- Type of pregame party
- Pregame party site
- Drive dangerously
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailboard. 2 (context British English) The hinged rear door of a hatchback. 3 Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock. (rfex) vb. 1 (context automotive English) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle. 2 To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader. 3 (context finance of a broker English) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client. 4 (context US English) to have a tailgate party
WordNet
n. a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading [syn: tailboard]
v. follow at a dangerously close distance; "it is dangerous to tailgate another vehicle"
Wikipedia
Tailgate, Tailgating or Tailgator may refer to:
- Tailgate, a door or gate at the back of a vehicle
- Tailgate party (or Tailgating) a social event held on and around the open tailgate of a vehicle
- Tailgating, following someone too closely
- Tailgating, privately purchasing or selling a security by a broker immediately after trading in the same security for a client, see front running
- Tailgating, unauthorized access of restricted areas by following another person, see Piggybacking (security)
- Tailgate Clothing Company, a clothing company in New York, USA
- Tailgate, an anti-line-over device commonly used in base-jumping parachutes, invented by Todd Shoebotham
- Tailgate (album), a 2010 album by Trailer Choir
- Tailgate (How I Met Your Mother), TV series episode
- Tailgate, cartoon character from The Transformers
- Tailgate, nickname of the Lewinsky scandal
Tailgate is the first studio album by the American country music group Trailer Choir. It was released on July 6, 2010 via Show Dog-Universal Music. The album includes the single "Shakin' That Tailgate," as well as the songs "Rockin' the Beer Gut" and "Rollin' Through the Sunshine," previously released as singles from the trio's 2009 EP Off the Hillbilly Hook. The tracks "Off the Hillbilly Hook," "In My Next 5 Beers" and "Last Man Standing" were previously included on that EP as well.
"Wal-Mart Flowers" was previously released by Stephen Cochran in 2009.
"Tailgate" is the 13th episode of the seventh season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 149th episode overall. It aired on January 2, 2012.
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.