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tail light

tail light is the alternative form of taillight.

Meaning of taillight

Noun

taillight (plural taillights)

  1. One of a pair of red lights mounted on the rear of a vehicle, so it can be seen from the rear at night.
    • All moved to the front street, where Grierson snibbed on his tail-light and turned to ask the trooper, "They've got the main road ploughed up farther on, haven't they?"1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 162
    Synonyms:
    rear light, taillamp

Forms of tail light

pluraltail lights

Questions about tail light

What is tail light the alternative form of?
Tail light is the alternative form of taillight.

Words near tail light in the dictionary

  1. tail jobs
  2. tail lamp
  3. tail lamps
  4. tail lift
  5. tail lifts
  6. tail light
  7. tail lights
  8. tail merging
  9. tail number
  10. tail numbers
  11. tail off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tail light (page history and authors); taillight (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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