Usually means: Driving too closely behind another vehicle.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word tailgating:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. tailgating: Collins English Dictionary
  2. tailgating: Vocabulary.com
  3. Tailgating, tailgating: Wordnik
  4. tailgating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. tailgating: Wiktionary
  6. tailgating: Dictionary.com
  7. tailgating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Tailgating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. tailgating: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. tailgating: Merriam-Webster

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Tailgating: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Tailgating: Investopedia
  4. Tailgating: Financial dictionary
  5. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  6. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tailgating: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. tailgating: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See tailgate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tailgating)

noun:  The act of driving dangerously close behind another vehicle.
noun:  A tailgate party (social event held on and around the open tailgate of a vehicle)
noun:  (finance) Synonym of front running

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