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[ teylz ] / teɪlz /
adjective, adverb(of a coin) with the reverse facing up: On the next toss, the coin came up tails.Compare heads. Origin of tailsFirst recorded in 1675–85; tail1 + -s1 Words nearby tailstailpiece, tailpipe, tail plane, tailrace, tail rotor, tails, tail skid, tailspin, tailstock, tailwater, tail wheel Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for tailsChicken satay and shrimp cocktail are also good options, as you can watch the skewers and tails stack up. 12 Thanksgiving Weight Loss Tips That Actually Work|DailyBurn|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.” Keystone Senate Failure Is Environmental Kabuki Theater|Ben Jacobs|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST Google has more than a million hits—and countless images—for the term “babies born with tails.” The Crazy Way Creationists Try To Explain Human Tails Without Evolution|Karl W. Giberson|June 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST And yet the dioramas of Adam and Eve in the Creation Museum do not picture them with tails, for some reason. My Debate With an ‘Intelligent Design’ Theorist|Karl W. Giberson|April 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I have no idea how Intelligent Design theorists explain humans with tails. My Debate With an ‘Intelligent Design’ Theorist|Karl W. Giberson|April 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST The two horses, instinctively drawing close together, turned their tails to the driving flakes. Two on the Trail|Hulbert Footner Just fancy, I saw rats and ran about on all fours to put a grain of salt under their tails. The tails of the Nejd horses are as peculiar as their heads, and are as essential to their beauty. A Pilgrimage to Nejd, Vol. 2 [of 2]|Anne Blunt After a time his displeasure abated, as he caught sight of a dish of Syrian lambs' tails, dressed with spices, a favourite dainty. Herodias|Gustave Flaubert One could find nothing but paper money, and a five-franc note was of no use in a matter of heads or tails! The Enemies of Women|Vicente Blasco Ibez
British Dictionary definitions for tails
pl nan informal name for tail coat interjection, adverbwith the reverse side of a coin uppermost: used as a call before tossing a coinCompare heads Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to tailsrear end, rear, butt, rudder, hound, stalk, buttocks, end, reverse, extremity, train, behind, stub, appendage, posterior, tag, tush, rump, conclusion, tailpiece |