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tail
noun- the backside, buttocks and/or anus UK, 1303
- I’ve seen better tail on a mule. — Jim Thompson, The Nothing Man, p. 164, 1953
- Boy you better get yo li’l tail in that room ‘fore ya daddy catches you. — Menace II Society, 1993
- a woman, regarded as a sexual object; women, collectively, categorized with the same regard UK, 1846
- You going to bring the tail over? — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 146, 1954
- “They ought to have a youth center in this burg,” said Wally, “where a guy could pick up some tail.” — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 171, 1957
- I said, “I’m goin’ downtown and get a little tail.” — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 218, 1964
- “I don’t know,” Lundy said, “man’s waiting to get shot he’s got some tail with him.” — Elmore Leonard, Mr. Majestyk, p. 151, 1974
- an act of sexual intercourse or sexual intercourse in a general sense UK, 1933
The earlier, obsolete, senses of “penis” and “vagina” come together in a logical consequence. - He played the ponies, got his tail, smoked cigarettes incessantly, despite his bad lungs, drank, sat up at all-night poker games. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 12, 1947
- It must be easy to get tail with that car. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 52, 1947
- Innarested in a little tail t’night? — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 91, 1951
- He loves tail — Jonathan Thomas, English as She is Fraught, 1976
- MR. CHEEKY: Oh, yeah. My brother usually rescues me, if he can keep off the tail for more than twenty minutes. Huh. BRIAN: Ahhh? MR. CHEEKY: Randy little bugger. Up and down like the Assyrian Empire. — Monty Python, Life of Brian, 1979
- a person who is following someone else closely and secretly US, 1914
- If he can get the killer to me you can bet your grandmother’s uplift bra that he’ll have a tail on me all the way[.] — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 15, 1947
- Except that would have only worked if the booger could lose the tail they’d have on him. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 312, 1991
- Nicky couldn’t even go for a ride without changing cars at least six times before he could shake all his tails. — Casino, 1995
- in prison, an informer US
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 216, 1990
- the term of a prisoner’s parole US, 1992
- “Six months, five-hundred-dollar fine, three-year tail.” — Ken Kesey, Kesey’s Jail Journal, p. 110, 1967
- "He has a six month tail." This means he has to serve six months on parole. — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 101, 1992
- in hot rodding, a fox tail or racoon tail tied to the car US
- — Tom MacPherson, Dragging and Driving, p. 143, 1960
▶ bust your tail
to give the maximum effort US- After busting his tail to get out here he wouldn’t mind relaxing for a few minutes. — Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight, p. 23, 1996
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