The word "tailgate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the action of opening the trunk of a car, or the act of socializing in a parking lot before an event. For example, "We had a great time tailgating before the football game last weekend."
The Range Rover's fold-down lower tailgate was also a handy perch from which to view a polo match or a point-to-point.Moreover, with the moneyed classes flitting between town and country, the Range Rover became a common sight on London's more fashionable thoroughfares, such as Sloane Street and the King's Road.
She has also danced the "Wobble" at a tailgate party and has helped a 28-year-old perform a "keg stand" (doing a handstand on a beer keg while drinking from it).
The University of Georgia Bulldogs are meeting the University of Tennessee Volunteers at the former's campus in Athens, and Saxby Chambliss, United States Senator and Georgia alumnus, is going down to shake hands at the tailgate parties.I'm poking around the Republican headquarters in downtown Athens.
It's a global issue".This is a fine tailgate, but the crowd is a bit older and it's a sedate affair.
It is now often used in engine blocks, suspension components and some body panels (for example the bonnet and tailgate of the new Audi A3, which will also debut in Detroit).
Ory is often remembered as a "tailgate" trombonist, one whose style of playing fills in, or supports, other band instruments and is reminiscent of the styles of prejazz ragtime bands and cakewalk bands.
This greatly improves the view aft, as the rear window in the short tailgate would be shallow on its own.
We ended the day overlooking a misty bay in Torbay, with boats bobbing in the harbour, while we ate a Chinese takeaway off the tailgate of my pickup truck.
Some came for the football, some attracted by all that surrounds it – from the tailgate event in the Wembley car park to the cheerleaders and the pre-match build-up in the stadium.
Once you've had a large tailgate, sliding rear doors and a flat load bay, it will be impossible to go back to a "conventional" hatch.
De Villota had completed her first runs when, for reasons still not yet fully identified, she collided with the tailgate of the team truck while heading for the makeshift pit area; by cruel chance the tailgate had been left at eye level and in a horrible accident she struck her head, sustained serious injuries and eventually lost her right eye.
