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TAILGATE

8 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

TAILGATE is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

TAILGATES-s 11 TAILGATING 11 TAILGATED-d 11

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TAILGATER 11 TAILGATERS 11
noun
  1. A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
    • Drop the tailgate, please, and I'll load these pallets.
  2. UKespeciallyThe hinged rear door of a hatchback.
    • Open up the tailgate, please, and retrieve her suitcases.
  3. The downstream gate in the lock on a canal or river, or in an irrigation system.
    • The locktender closed the tailgate and the chamber started to fill.
  4. USabbreviationellipsisEllipsis of tailgate party.
    • Are you coming to the tailgate? We'll be grilling brisket.
  5. A tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
verb
  1. intransitivetransitiveTo drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
    • That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.
  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.
  3. To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
  4. USintransitiveTo have a tailgate party.