Usually means: Riding on another's success indirectly.
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  1. coattails: Merriam-Webster
  2. coattails: Vocabulary.com
  3. Coattails, coattails: Wordnik
  4. coattails: Wiktionary
  5. coattails: Dictionary.com
  6. Coattails: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. coattails: FreeDictionary.org
  8. coattails: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. coattails: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Coattails: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The flap at the back of a coat that hangs down, sometimes below the waist.
noun:  (usually in the plural, figurative) Success of a figure, organization or movement that transfers to those who associate with it.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To ride the coattails of.
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