English Dictionary

tailgate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈteɪlˌɡeɪt/

名詞

イギリス英語 アメリカ英語 略語 別表記 省略

A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading. / (Britain) The hinged rear door of a hatchback. / Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock.

日本語の意味

車両の後方にある、荷物の積み下ろし用に下げることができる蝶番付きの扉または蓋 / （英国における意味）ハッチバック車の後部にあるヒンジ付き扉 / 運河の水門の下流側にあるゲート

He folded down the tailgate to make a makeshift table for the picnic.

彼はピクニック用の即席テーブルにするため、荷台の扉を倒した。

意味（1）

A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.

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.

意味（2）

(Britain) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.

意味（3）

Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock.

意味（4）

(US) Ellipsis of tailgate party.

The website was created by Harry St. John, a former college athlete who wanted to take the agony out of managing tailgates.

tailgates （ plural ）