tails

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tails

  1. plural of tail

Noun

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tails

  1. (slang) Clipping of tailcoat.
  2. The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.
    Antonym: heads
    Tails, I win.
  3. (mining) Tailings; waste.
  4. (alcohol production) Tailings, feints.
    • 2011 February 9, Bill Owens, Alan Dikty, The Art of Distilling Whiskey and Other Spirits: An Enthusiast's Guide to the Artisan Distilling of Potent Potables, Quarry Books, →ISBN, page 39:
      The tails can be collected until the evolving distillate is down to about 10 percent, and the stillhead []

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tails

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tail

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