tails
/teɪlz/
tails is the plural of tail.
tails is the clipping of tailcoat.
tails is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tail.
Noun
tails
- The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.
- Tails, I win.
- Antonyms:
- heads
- Tailings; waste.
- Tailings, feints.
- The tails can be collected until the evolving distillate is down to about 10 percent, and the stillhead[…]2011 February 9, Bill Owens, Alan Dikty, The Art of Distilling Whiskey and Other Spirits: An Enthusiast's Guide to the Artisan Distilling of Potent Potables, Quarry Books, →ISBN, page 39
Meaning of tail
Noun
tail (plural tails)
- The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- Most primates have a tail and fangs.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something.
- Duretus writes a great praise of the Distill'd waters of those tails that hang on Willow Trees.1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus: or the Anatomy of Consumptions, page 112
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- The tail-end of any object.
- And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the taile, […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:13
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
Meaning of tailcoat
Noun
tailcoat (plural tailcoats)
- A formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat.
- Any coat with similar tails.
Antonyms of tails
Phrases with tails
- tails in
- box tails
- fat tails
- tails off
- bang tails
- fish tails
- long tails
- mill tails
- pony tails
- tails away
- tails down
- comet tails
26 more phrasesFewer phrases
- heavy tails
- horse tails
- skunk tails
- snake tails
- whale tails
- beaver tails
- lamb's tails
- lizard tails
- mare's tails
- mares' tails
- monkey tails
- spread tails
- turkey tails
- nose to tails
- raccoon tails
- top and tails
- dragon's tails
- heads or tails
- lizard's tails
- tops and tails
- petticoat tails
- stings in tails
- Willy Wag Tails
- cat o' nine tails
- like a dog with two tails
- heads I win, tails you lose
Words that rhyme with tails
Questions about tails
- What does tails mean?
- Tails means the side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.
- What is tails the plural of?
- Tails is the plural of tail.
- What part of speech is tails?
- Tails is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tails?
- Tails is pronounced /teɪlz/.
Words near tails in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tails (page history and authors); tail (page history and authors); tailcoat (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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