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tailgating

noun

An act of driving dangerously close behind another vehicle.

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The word "tailgating" is correct and usable in written English.
It's typically used to refer to the act of following a vehicle too closely, but it can also be used more generally to refer to any kind of activity that involves people gathering in a close and confined space, such as a parking lot. For example, you might say, "We're planning on tailgating before the game tomorrow night."

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Most of the crowd brought their own lawn chairs, often emblazoned with the logo of the University of Iowa or Iowa State and likely used for tailgating in the fall.

Some car and lorry drivers try to exploit this aerodynamic effect by tailgating big trucks to reduce their own fuel consumption.

Some car and lorry drivers try to exploit this aerodynamic effect by tailgating big trucks in order to reduce their own fuel consumption.

Yet thousands of the frozen souls who begin arriving in the car park from dawn have no intention of entering the stadium.Of all the bizarre blood-sports in America, nothing really rivals "tailgating".

Toyota is a relentless competitor which has overtaken Ford in terms of sales and is now tailgating the industry's leader, General Motors GMM).

I passed him again and he then began tailgating me, flashing his headlights and trying to force me into the oncoming lane.

The student body and locals alike adopt in a ritual known as "tailgating" every game day.

Make no mistake, Alabamians regard tailgating as more than just pre-match formality.

The victim was driving her silver BMW Z4 on the anti-clockwise stretch of the M25 between junction 11 at Chertsey, Surrey, and junction 10 at Wisley just before 8.30pm last night when a Mercedes began tailgating her vehicle.

When I rode in it with Dmitri Dolgov, the team's lead programmer, it had an occasional lapse in judgment: tailgating a truck as it came down an exit ramp; rushing late through a yellow light.

She is returning from the hospital after visiting her mother; he is on a crazed, tailgating, horn-honking jag, having fallen off the wagon when the Yankees lost the playoffs — a loss that seems to stand in for all the other losses of his sad life.

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