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Meaning:

Noun:

  • anatomy The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
  • An object or part thereof resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails or other multi-tail whip.
  • cricket The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
  • in plural The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
  • maths (of a sequence) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
  • One who surreptitiously follows another.
  • slang The male member of a person or animal.
  • uncountable Sexual intercourse as a man on top.
  • ''Specifically,'' the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
  • statistics The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; ''as'', a long tail.
  • The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
  • The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage
  • The tail-end of a creature (buttocks, even if tailless) or an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
  • typography The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in ''g'', ''q'' or ''y''.

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Verb:

  • transitive To surreptitiously follow and observe.

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