Meanings
nountailboard (plural tailboards)
plural tailboards
- A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailgate.
The man in the very new overalls was just heaving a box up on the tailboard.
1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep1 more example
She got one knee up under him and hurled him off, and was over the tail-board in a flash, landing on her feet like a cat, and panting hard, by the sudden release of a violent emotion.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 171
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APA
tailboard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tailboard
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“tailboard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tailboard. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tailboard,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tailboard.
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