Meanings (ES + gloss)
puerta trasera
A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
Drop the tailgate, please, and I'll load these pallets.
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.
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chupar rueda • conducir muy cerca de otro vehículo • conducir pegado a • conducir sin distancia de seguridad
To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
She also tailgated them at high speed in her convertible yellow Mercedes.
That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.
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