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tails

  • /teɪlz/

Sounds like tales · Rhymes with -eɪlz

noun

  1. plural plural of tail

noun

  1. abbreviation, clipping, slang Clipping of tailcoat So I'm putting on my top hat, tying on my white tie, brushing off my tails.
  2. The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar. Tails, I win.

    Opposite: heads

  3. Tailings; waste.
  4. Tailings, feints. The tails can be collected until the evolving distillate is down to about 10 percent, and the stillhead[…]

verb

  1. indicative, present, singular, third person third-person singular simple present indicative of tail

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: tailcoat, dress suit, white tie, full dress, tail coat, legs, sharp, stack, faced, piles, front, heads, lines, face, right, exactly

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noun side of coin

Españolcruz, ceca, águila
日本語裏 ura
中文背面 bèimiàn, 反面 fǎnmiàn, 字兒 /字儿
Portuguêscoroa
Françaispile
DeutschZahl
Italianocode, croce
Русскийре́шка réška
Tiếng Việtmặt sấp
العربيةنَقْش naqš
עבריתפָּלִי páli

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@misc{tails_2026,
  title = {tails},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tails},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}