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rooster-tail

rooster-tail is the alternative form of roostertail.

Meaning of roostertail

Noun

roostertail (plural roostertails)

  1. A violent fountain or spray, especially one caused by a moving vehicle or boat.
    • A roostertail of snow kicked up behind me.1988, Libby Riddles, Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story, →ISBN, page 21

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Forms of rooster-tail

pluralrooster-tails

Questions about rooster-tail

What is rooster-tail the alternative form of?
Rooster-tail is the alternative form of roostertail.

Words near rooster-tail in the dictionary

  1. rooster
  2. rooster booster
  3. rooster boosters
  4. rooster sauce
  5. rooster sauces
  6. rooster-tail
  7. rooster-tails
  8. roosterfish
  9. roosterfishes
  10. roosterhead
  11. roosterheads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rooster-tail (page history and authors); roostertail (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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