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making head or tail of

making head or tail of is the present participle and gerund 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 making head or tail of

What is making head or tail of the present participle and gerund of?
Making head or tail of is the present participle and gerund of make head or tail of.

Words near making head or tail of in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: making 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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