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Tails

/teɪlz/

The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

📖 Definitions of "Tails"

noun
  1. 1

    The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

    "Most primates have a tail and fangs."

  2. 2

    An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

  3. 3

    The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

  4. 4

    The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.

verb
  1. 1

    To follow and observe surreptitiously.

    "Tail that car!"

  2. 2

    To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into

  3. 3

    To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

    "This vessel tails downstream."

  4. 4

    To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

noun
  1. 1

    A formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat.

  2. 2

    Any coat with similar tails.

noun
  1. 1

    The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.

    "Tails, I win."

  2. 2

    Tailings; waste

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