tail

Plural: tails

Noun

• the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
• the time of the last part of something
  • "the tail of the storm"
• any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
• (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
• the rear part of an aircraft
• the rear part of a ship
• The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
• An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
• The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
• The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
• The tail-end of any object.
• The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
• The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
• The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
• The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
• One who surreptitiously follows another.
• The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
• The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
• The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
• All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
• The buttocks or backside.
• The penis of a person or animal.
• Sexual intercourse.
• The stern; the back of the kayak.
• A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
• The distal tendon of a muscle.
• A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
• A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
• A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
• One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
• A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
• The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
• A tailing.
• The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
• A tailcoat.
• Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
• The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
• Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

Verb

Verb Forms: tailed, tailing, tails

• To provide or furnish with a tail or hindmost part.
• go after with the intent to catch
• remove or shorten the tail of an animal
• remove the stalk of fruits or berries
• To follow and observe surreptitiously.
• To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
• To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
• To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
• To pull or draw by the tail.

Adj

• Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

Examples

• A sequence (a#95;n) is said to be frequently 0 if every tail of the sequence contains 0.
• He tried to TAIL his word with an ’S’ but couldn’t find a spot in Scrabble.
• I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
• in tail
• Most primates have a tail and fangs.
• tail male
• Tail that car!
• This vessel tails downstream.

Synonyms

after part, arse, ass, backside, behind, bob, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, chase, chase after, derriere, dock, dog, empennage, fag end, fanny, fundament, give chase, go after, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, poop, posterior, prat, quarter, rear, rear end, rump, seat, shadow, shadower, stern, tag, tail assembly, tail end, tooshie, track, trail, tush, Netflix and chill, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, action, aphrodisia, bang, barney-mugging, beef injection, bonking, boom-boom, carnal knowledge, chesterfield rugby, coition, coitus, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjunction, connection, consummation, conversation, copulation, coupling, cuntfuck, descender, fooling about, fooling around, frig, fucking, fucky-fucky, funny business, hanky-panky, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, hot beef injection, how's your father, hump, humpa humpa, intercourse, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, jig-jig, jiggery-pokery, jiggy-jiggy, joining, lay, legover, love, lovemaking, lustmaking, making whoopee, marital embrace, mating, meat injection, monkey business, mounting, nookie, old hat, pareunia, penetration, physical love, pigtail, pipe, playing around, plough, plow, poon, poontang, punani, pussy, relations, ride, roll in the hay, root, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, screw, screwing, seeing-to, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, sexy time, sexy times, shag, skin, snu snu, swiving, tailings, tang, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, trim, union

Antonyms

head

Related Words

Otter Tail County, cat-o'-nine-tails, caudal, chase one's tail, entail, have the world by the tail, tail covert, tail feather, tail fin, tail light, tail wagging the dog, turn tail

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