Tailgate, Tailgating, or variants of Tailgator may refer to:

Automobile

3-way tailgate The trunk (American English) or boot (British English) of a car is the vehicle's main storage or cargo compartment, often a hatch at the rear of the vehicle. It can also be called a tailgate. In Indian English the storage area is known as a ...

, a door or gate at the back of a vehicle *

Tailgating Tailgating is the action of a driver driving behind another vehicle while not leaving sufficient distance to stop without causing a collision if the vehicle in front stops suddenly. The safe distance for following another vehicle varies depend ...

, following another vehicle too closely * Tailgating, gaining access to restricted areas by following another person, see

Piggybacking (security) In security, piggybacking, similar to tailgating, refers to when a person tags along with another person who is authorized to gain entry into a restricted area, or pass a certain checkpoint. It can be either electronic or physical. The act may be ...

* Tailgate party, a social event around the open tailgate of a vehicle

Entertainment

* ''Tailgate'' (album), a 2010 album by Trailer Choir * "Tailgate" (''How I Met Your Mother''), TV series episode * Tailgate, cartoon character from ''

The Transformers ''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Tomy, Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, two Extraterrestrials in fiction, alien robot fac ...

'' * '' Tail 'Gator'', video game * The Tailgators, a 1980s Cajun band * Tailgate (song) a 1977 disco song by 12st Creation

Other uses

* Tailgater (Dish Network) * Tailgating, privately purchasing or selling a security by a broker immediately after trading in the same security for a client, see

front running Front running, also known as tailgating, is the practice of entering into an equity (stock) trade, option, futures contract, derivative, or security-based swap to capitalize on advance, nonpublic knowledge of a large ("block") pending transactio ...

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