Usually means: Riding on another's success indirectly.
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  1. coattail: Merriam-Webster
  2. coattail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coattail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coattail: Vocabulary.com
  5. Coattail, coattail: Wordnik
  6. coattail: Wiktionary
  7. coattail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. coattail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. coattail: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. coattail: Dictionary.com
  11. Coattail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. coattail: Rhymezone
  13. coattail: FreeDictionary.org
  14. coattail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. coattail: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (coattail)

noun:  The flap at the back of a coat that hangs down, sometimes below the waist.
noun:  (usually in the plural, figurative) Success of a figure, organization or movement that transfers to those who associate with it.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To ride the coattails of.

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