Meaning

1 senses

  1. To ride the coattails of.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. He rides his older brother's coattails.

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  2. There was a gentleman wearing a coattail.

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  3. He rode the coattails of his father to find an audience.

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Origin

From coat + tail.

From coat + tail.

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Forms

coattails, coattailing, coattailed, coattailed
Base formcoattail · to coattail
3rd person singularcoattails
Present participlecoattailing
Past simplecoattailed
Past participlecoattailed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycoattail
he, she, itcoattails

Past simpleLesson

all personscoattailed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave coattailed
he, she, ithas coattailed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill coattail

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
coastlineB2coatA1coatingcoauthorcoaxC2
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