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makes head or tail of

makes head or tail of is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 makes head or tail of

What is makes head or tail of the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Makes head or tail of is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make head or tail of.

Words near makes head or tail of in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: makes 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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