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bobtailing

bobtailing is the present participle and gerund of bobtail.

Meaning of bobtail

Verb

bobtail (third-person singular simple present bobtails, present participle bobtailing, simple past and past participle bobtailed)

  1. To drive a tractor without its trailer.
    • 2002. David Diamond. The Trucker & The Professor, Wired (magazine), Issue 9.12http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/sheffi.html?pg=2&topic=&topic_set=
      He deposits his trailer at a Marten facility in nearby Stockton, and then drives without the trailer - that's called "bobtailing".
  2. To drive a truck or other vehicle without its trailer.
    • 2003. Bergmann Co. Bergmann's Cleaning History:https://web.archive.org/web/20071012131035/http://bergmanns.com/company_history.asp
      W.C. Bergmann was supplementing his meager lamplighter's income by "bobtailing"… picking up laundry and cleaning in his horse drawn truck...

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Questions about bobtailing

What is bobtailing the present participle and gerund of?
Bobtailing is the present participle and gerund of bobtail.

Words near bobtailing in the dictionary

  1. bobtail squid
  2. bobtail squids
  3. bobtail trophon
  4. bobtail trophons
  5. bobtailed
  6. bobtailing
  7. bobtails
  8. bobuck
  9. bobucks
  10. Bobundara
  11. Bobux

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bobtailing (page history and authors); bobtail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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