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Tailgated vs Tailgate - What's the difference?

tailgated | tailgate |

As verbs the difference between tailgated and tailgate

is that tailgated is past tense of tailgate while tailgate is to drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.

As a noun tailgate is

a hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailboard.

tailgated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tailgate)

    • tailgate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)

    • Derived terms

    * (hatch at rear of vehicle) tailgate party

    Related terms

    * tradegate

    See also

    * ("tailgate" on Wikipedia) * security distance

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (automotive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
    • That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.
  • 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

    • Synonyms

    * (access control) piggyback,

    Coordinate terms

    * (buying or selling a security) front run

    See also

    *

    tailgate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)

    • Derived terms

    * (hatch at rear of vehicle) tailgate party

    Related terms

    * tradegate

    See also

    * ("tailgate" on Wikipedia) * security distance

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (automotive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
    • That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.
  • 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

    • Synonyms

    * (access control) piggyback,

    Coordinate terms

    * (buying or selling a security) front run

    See also

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