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"text": "When they first attached tailgates to cars, we were hooked. By the 1970s, wagons with names like Vista Cruiser and Town & Country sported tailgates as big as dining tables.",
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"word": "perälauta"
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"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
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"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"feminine",
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"feminine"
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"roman": "zádnij otkidnój bort",
"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
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"masculine"
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"feminine"
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"text": "That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.",
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"ref": "2002 October 19, Helen Carter, “That's no lady - that's the heiress who taunted neighbours”, in The Guardian",
"text": "She also tailgated them at high speed in her convertible yellow Mercedes.",
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"text": "Last week the UK government announced a crackdown on unsafe driving. From now on, those of us spotted tailgating or lane hogging will face on-the-spot fines of £100 and three penalty points.",
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"(automotive, intransitive, transitive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle."
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"word": "enganxar-se"
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "køre uden sikkerhedsafstand"
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "bumperkleven"
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "kleven"
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "roikkua perässä"
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "dicht auffahren"
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"_dis1": "83 8 3 5",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "drängeln"
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"english": "to tail closely",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
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"word": "prope insequi"
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
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"word": "siedzieć na ogonie"
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"tags": [
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"word": "siedzieć na zderzaku"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ne sobljudátʹ distánciju",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "не соблюда́ть диста́нцию"
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"word": "не соблюсти́ диста́нцию"
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "chupar rueda"
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "conducir pegado a"
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"word": "conducir muy cerca de otro vehículo"
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"_dis1": "83 8 3 5",
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"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "bám sát đuôi"
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"_dis1": "83 8 3 5",
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"ref": "2018 September 10, “ABC tightens Sydney security after man allegedly infiltrates building and assaults employee”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "2013 September 29, Ken Belson, “The Tailgate Experience, British Style”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "The point, Goldstein discovered through a lot of long days hanging out in parking lots, is that tailgating — the gustatory madness, the multigenerational camaraderie, the decked-out vans — is as essential a part of football as the game itself.",
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[
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"ref": "2013 November 8, Nancy M. Better, “Tailgating Gets Online Playbooks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "The website was created by Harry St. John, a former college athlete who wanted to take the agony out of managing tailgates.",
"type": "quotation"
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"masculine"
],
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"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
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"feminine"
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
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"common-gender"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"word": "laadklep"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"word": "perälauta"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hayon"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Heckklappe"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "clár deiridh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "portellone"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
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"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "driéthe"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "bakluke"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bakluke"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "за́дний откидно́й борт"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "puerta trasera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "bakdörr"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"word": "долна врата на шлюз"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "either of the downstream gates in a canal lock",
"word": "alaportti"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "either of the downstream gates in a canal lock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vantail"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "either of the downstream gates in a canal lock",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "porte"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "спускно́й шлюз"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
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],
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
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{
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{
"word": "slipstream"
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"English terms with usage examples",
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{
"ref": "2013 August 19, Chris Chambers, “Bad driving: what are we thinking?”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Last week the UK government announced a crackdown on unsafe driving. From now on, those of us spotted tailgating or lane hogging will face on-the-spot fines of £100 and three penalty points.",
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"To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle."
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"ref": "2018 September 10, “ABC tightens Sydney security after man allegedly infiltrates building and assaults employee”, in The Guardian",
"text": "An email circulated to ABC employees says Gallagher is believed to have tailgated staff walking through the building’s high-security doors.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"examples": [
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"text": "Coordinate term: front run"
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"glosses": [
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"(finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client."
],
"raw_tags": [
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"finance"
]
},
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"ref": "2013 September 29, Ken Belson, “The Tailgate Experience, British Style”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "The point, Goldstein discovered through a lot of long days hanging out in parking lots, is that tailgating — the gustatory madness, the multigenerational camaraderie, the decked-out vans — is as essential a part of football as the game itself.",
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"(US, intransitive) To have a tailgate party."
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "enganxar-se"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "køre uden sikkerhedsafstand"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "bumperkleven"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "kleven"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "roikkua perässä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
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},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "coller aux basques"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "coller au train"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "coller au cul"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "dicht auffahren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "drängeln"
},
{
"code": "la",
"english": "to tail closely",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"word": "prope insequi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "siedzieć na ogonie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "siedzieć na zderzaku"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ne sobljudátʹ distánciju",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "не соблюда́ть диста́нцию"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ne sobljustí distánciju",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "не соблюсти́ диста́нцию"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "chupar rueda"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "conducir pegado a"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "conducir muy cerca de otro vehículo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "conducir sin distancia de seguridad"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
"word": "bám sát đuôi"
},
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "drive dangerously close behind another vehicle",
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"slang"
],
"word": "dí đít"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "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",
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