tailgate
/ˈteɪlɡeɪt/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈteɪlɡeɪt/
tailgate
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
tail - gate -> tailgate
Myanmar meaning
(n) ကုန်တင်ကားနောက်မြီး။ ကားတွင်ပင့်၍ဖွင့်ရသောနောက်လေကာမှန်ပါတံခါး။
Full entry
(က) (also tailboard ) ကုန်တင်ကားနောက်မြီး။
(ခ) ကားတွင် ပင့်၍ဖွင့်ရသော နောက်လေကာမှန်ပါ တံခါး။
v (US infml ) ရှေ့ကားနောက်မြီးနှင့်ကပ်၍လိုက်သည်။
More examples
- tailgate /'teÇlgeÇt/ n (က) (also tailboard ) ကုန်တင်ကားနောက်မြီး။ (ခ) ကားတွင် ပင့်၍ဖွင့်ရသော နောက်လေကာမှန်ပါ တံခါး။ v ( US infml ) ရှေ့ကားနောက်မြီးနှင့်ကပ်၍လိုက်သည်။
Synonyms
follow closely, stalk, track, be on the heels of, accompany, actuate, advance, associate with, attend, be hard on the heels of, bear down, bicycle, bike, bring up the rear, burn rubber, burn up the road, catenate, chaperon, chase, coast, come along, come with, concatenate, conduct, consort, convoy, cruise, cycle, dash, date, direct, dog, dog the footsteps of, draft, drag, draggle, escort, fire up, floor it, fly, follow, freeze, give chase, go after, go along, go with, guard, guide, handle, hang around with, hang out, hound, hunt, impel, keep company, lead, lean on it, look after, make sparks fly, manage, mobilize, motor, moving, onto, operate, persecute, pour it on, propel, pursue, pursue physically, push, put a tail on, ride, roll, run, run after, run down, schlepp along, search, seek, send, shadow, shag, shlep along, show about, show around, speed, spin, spook, squire, start, steer, step on it, step on the gas, stick to, string along, tag, tag after, tag along, tail, take out, take out after, tool, trail, transport, travel, turn, usher, vehiculate, wheel
Antonyms
abandon, avoid, check, curb, desert, discourage, disregard, dissuade, go before, halt, hold, ignore, keep, lead, leave, leave alone, let go, lose, mismanage, misunderstand, neglect, not get, pass over, precede, remain, repress, retard, run away, scorn, shun, slight, stand, stay, stop, walk, withdraw
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