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The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

Example: 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.

The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.

To follow and observe surreptitiously.

Example: Tail that car!

To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into

To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

Example: This vessel tails downstream.

To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

A formal evening jacket with an extended back panel; a dress coat.

Any coat with similar tails.

The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.

Example: Tails, I win.

Tailings; waste