Liftgate vs Tailgate - What's the difference?
liftgate | tailgate |
(automotive) A closure at the rear of a vehicle that can be mechanically raised during loading and unloading of heavy cargo
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A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailboard.
(British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock. (rfex)
(automotive) 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) to have a tailgate party
In automotive terms the difference between liftgate and tailgate
is that liftgate is a closure at the rear of a vehicle that can be mechanically raised during loading and unloading of heavy cargo while tailgate is to drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.As a verb tailgate is
to drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.liftgate
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*(wikipedia "liftgate")tailgate
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(en noun)Derived terms
* (hatch at rear of vehicle) tailgate partySee also
* ("tailgate" on Wikipedia) * security distanceVerb
(en-verb)- That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.