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How to pronounce “tailgate”
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Pronunciation guide for tailgate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tailgate with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Hospitality & Technology
this kind of environment, and this tailgate party
- Definition summary
- (automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce tailgate
Hospitality & Technology
this kind of environment, and this tailgate party
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tailgate”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
- (especially British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
- The downstream gate in the lock on a canal or river, or in an irrigation system.
- (US) Ellipsis of tailgate party.
- (mining) A tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
- [Verb]
- (automotive, intransitive, transitive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
- 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.
- (finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
- (US, intransitive) To have a tailgate party.
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