tails
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edittails
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edittails
- (slang) Clipping of tailcoat.
- 1935, Irving Berlin, Top Hat, White Tie and Tails:
- So I'm putting on my top hat, tying on my white tie, brushing off my tails.
- The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.
- Antonym: heads
- Tails, I win.
- (mining) Tailings; waste.
- (alcohol production) Tailings, feints.
- 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:
- The tails can be collected until the evolving distillate is down to about 10 percent, and the stillhead […]
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edittailcoat — see tailcoat
side of coin
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Verb
edittails
- third-person singular simple present indicative of tail
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