tailgate

tailgate
I. noun Date: 1868 1. a board or gate at the rear of a vehicle that can be removed or let down (as for loading) 2. [from the custom of seating trombonists at the rear of trucks carrying jazz bands in parades] a jazz trombone style marked by much use of slides to and from long sustained tones II. verb (tailgated; tailgating) Date: 1949 intransitive verb 1. to drive dangerously close behind another vehicle 2. to hold a tailgate picnic transitive verb to drive dangerously close behind • tailgater noun III. adjective Date: 1962 relating to or being a picnic set up on the tailgate especially of a station wagon

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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