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Headcase vs Tailback - What's the difference?

headcase | tailback |

As nouns the difference between headcase and tailback

is that headcase is (informal) a mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person, especially one who displays aggressive behavior while tailback is a line of motor vehicles caught up in traffic congestion; a traffic jam.

headcase

English

Alternative forms

* head-case, head case

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) A mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person, especially one who displays aggressive behavior.
  • * 2004 , Sean Gregory, " Full-Court Stress," Time , 5 Apr.:
    • "A stockbroker doesn't have 80,000 people sitting behind him just waiting for a mistake," says Jim Fassel, whom fans serenaded with "Fire Fassel!" chants during his final weeks as head coach of the New York Giants last season. "It can drive you crazy." From head coach to head case in three easy steps.

    tailback

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A line of motor vehicles caught up in traffic congestion; a traffic jam
  • * 2013 , Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history]
    • The idea of a British warship supposedly menacing Spain is ludicrous. Is it meant to bomb Cadiz? Will its guns lift a rush-hour tailback in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers? The Gibraltarians have rights, but why British taxpayers should send warships to enforce them, even if just "on exercise", is a mystery.