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Plural of tailgate

regular plural

The plural of tailgate is tailgates.

Forms of tailgate

Singulartailgate /ˈteɪlˌɡeɪt/
Pluraltailgates
Countablecountable

Tailgates in a sentence

  • When they first attached tailgates to cars, we were hooked.2007, Stephen Linn, The Ultimate Tailgater's Racing Guide, →ISBN

Meaning of tailgate

  1. noun A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
  2. noun The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
  3. noun The downstream gate in the lock on a canal or river, or in an irrigation system.

Full definition of tailgate

Questions about the plural of tailgate

What is the plural of tailgate?
The plural of tailgate is tailgates.
Is tailgate countable?
Tailgate is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tailgate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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