Usually means: Following someone closely without notice.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. tailing: Merriam-Webster
  2. tailing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tailing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tailing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tailing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tailing, tailing: Wordnik
  7. tailing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tailing: Wiktionary
  9. tailing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tailing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tailing: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tailing: Dictionary.com
  13. tailing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Tailing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Tailing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tailing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. tailing: Rhymezone
  18. Tailing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tailing: FreeDictionary.org
  20. tailing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tailing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tailing: Legal dictionary
  2. tailing: Financial dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tailing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. tailing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tailing: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tailing: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tailing: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tail as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tailing)

noun:  The act of following someone.
noun:  (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
noun:  (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
noun:  A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

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