tailgate

A noun referring to a gate or door at the back of a vehicle, such as a truck or SUV, that can be lowered or removed to facilitate loading and unloading.

• 🇪🇸Compuerta o portón trasero de un vehículo, como una camioneta o un todoterreno, que se puede bajar o quitar para facilitar la carga y descarga.

1. Vehicle gate B1 formal

   A gate or door at the back of a truck, van, or SUV that can be lowered or removed for loading and unloading.

   • He lowered the tailgate to load the furniture.
   • The pickup truck's tailgate was damaged in the accident.
   • She sat on the tailgate while watching the sunset.

   🇪🇸Compuerta trasera

   Sinónimos: tailboard

• tailgates plural form
• tailgates' possessive plural form
• tailgate's possessive singular form

A verb used to describe the act of driving too closely behind another vehicle, or the social activity of having a party or gathering in a vehicle's tailgate area, typically before a sports event.

• 🇪🇸Verbo que significa conducir demasiado cerca del vehículo que va delante, o participar en una reunión social, como una fiesta, en la parte trasera de un vehículo, generalmente antes de un evento deportivo.

1. Follow too closely B2 informal

   To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle, reducing the safe stopping distance.

   • The car behind me was tailgating aggressively on the highway.
   • You should never tailgate in heavy rain or fog.
   • He got a ticket for tailgating the truck in front of him.

   🇪🇸Conducir pegado al vehículo de delante

• tailgated past participle
• tailgated past simple
• tailgating present participle
• tailgates third person singular