tails

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eɪlz

Noun

tails

plural of tail
(slang) Clipping of tailcoat.
- Irving Berlin, chorus from Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
  So I'm putting on my top hat, tying on my white tie, brushing off my tails.
The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.
Antonym: heads

Tails, I win.
(mining) tailings; waste

Translations

tailcoat — see tailcoat

side of coin

Chinese:
Mandarin: 背面 (zh) (bèimiàn), 反面 (zh) (fǎnmiàn)
Finnish: klaava (fi)
French: pile (fr) f
German: Zahl (de) f
Hawaiian: hiʻu
Hebrew: פָּלִי‎ m (páli)
Hungarian: írás (hu)

Italian: code (it), croce (it) f
Japanese: 裏 (ja) (うら, ura)
Portuguese: coroa (pt) f
Russian: ре́шка (ru) f (réška)
Spanish: seca (es) f, cruz (es) f, (Mexico) águila (es)
Swedish: klave (sv) c
Vietnamese: mặt sấp

Verb

tails

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tail

Anagrams

A list, A-list, Talsi, alist, itals, laits, litas, silat, stail

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