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tail
verb
to follow someone closely and secretly US, 1907- Pat knows you’re too smart not to recognize when you’re being tailed. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 15, 1947
- You didn’t think the guy’d be smart enough to know he was being tailed. — 48 Hours, 1982
- Look to see if he was being tailed, of course. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 303, 1991
▶ tail ’em
in the gambling game two-up, to throw a pair of tails AUSTRALIA, 1911- They hit the ground, and from every throat (if they are the same) comes the cry: “He’s headed ’em,” or “He’s tailed ’em.” — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 101, 1966
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