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.

• 🇵🇹Substantivo que designa a porta ou o painel traseiro de um veículo, como caminhonete, caminhão ou SUV, que pode ser abaixado ou removido para facilitar o carregamento e descarregamento. Também pode se referir à tampa traseira de uma carroceria de picape.

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.

   🇵🇹Porta traseira

   Sinônimos: 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 usado para descrever dirigir muito perto do veículo da frente, ou fazer uma festa ou reunião na traseira de uma caminhonete, geralmente antes de um evento esportivo.

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.

   🇵🇹Dirigir muito perto

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