tails

• IPA^(key): /teɪlz/

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• Homophone: tales
• Rhymes: -eɪlz

tails

1. plural of tail

tails

1. (slang) Clipping of tailcoat.
   • 1935, Irving Berlin, Top Hat, White Tie and Tails:

     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.

   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 […]

tails

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tail

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