Usually means: Followed another car too closely.
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  1. tailgated: Merriam-Webster
  2. tailgated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tailgated: Vocabulary.com
  4. tailgated: Wordnik
  5. tailgated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tailgated: Wiktionary
  7. tailgated: Dictionary.com
  8. tailgated: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. tailgated: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tailgated: Encyclopedia

(Note: See tailgate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tailgate)

noun:  (automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
noun:  (British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
noun:  Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock.
noun:  (mining) A tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
verb:  (automotive, intransitive, transitive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
verb:  To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
verb:  (finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
verb:  (US, intransitive) To have a tailgate party.
noun:  Synonym of Monicagate
noun:  (US) Ellipsis of tailgate party. [A celebration, held in a parking lot, with picnic food served out of the back of automobiles or pickup trucks; usually held at sporting events.]
▸ Also see tailgate


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