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made head or tail of

made head or tail of is the simple past and past participle of make head or tail of.

Meaning of make head or tail of

Verb

make head or tail of (third-person singular simple present makes head or tail of, present participle making head or tail of, simple past and past participle made head or tail of)

  1. (idiomatic) To understand even minimally.
    • See if you can make head or tail of the last section in this chapter. I'm baffled.
  2. To determine to be good or bad.

Questions about made head or tail of

What is made head or tail of the simple past and past participle of?
Made head or tail of is the simple past and past participle of make head or tail of.

Words near made head or tail of in the dictionary

  1. made haste
  2. made haste slowly
  3. made hay
  4. made hay while the sun shone
  5. made head against
  6. made head or tail of
  7. made headway
  8. made heavy going of
  9. made heavy weather
  10. made heavy weather of
  11. made history

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Adapted from Wiktionary: made head or tail of (page history and authors); make head or tail of (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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