Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive, transitive)To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.

    That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.

    dicht auffahren, drängeln

    не соблюда́ть диста́нциюne sobljudátʹ distánciju, не соблюсти́ диста́нциюne sobljustí distánciju

    follow at a dangerously close distance

  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.

    проходить паровозикомproxoditʹ

  3. To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.

  4. (US, intransitive)To participate in a tailgate party.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Tom sat next to Mary on the tailgate.

    deTom setzte sich neben Maria auf den Kofferraum. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom was tailgating the car in front of him.

  3. Tom kept tailgating the car in front of us even though I told him it was unsafe to do so.

    deObwohl ich ihm gesagt hatte, dass es gefährlich wäre, hörte Tom nicht auf, dem Wagen vor uns an der Stoßstange zu kleben. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Don't tailgate this truck.

  5. Don't tailgate, please.

    deBitte drängle nicht! — brauchinet

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
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:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
drive dangerously close behind another vehicle:

Origin

From tail + gate. Compare liftgate.

From tail + gate. Compare liftgate.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

tailgates, tailgating, tailgated, tailgated
Base formtailgate · to tailgate
3rd person singulartailgates
Present participletailgating
Past simpletailgated
Past participletailgated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytailgate
he, she, ittailgates

Past simpleLesson

all personstailgated

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tailgate

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tailgate — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto