coat-trailing

[ koht-trey-ling ]

nounBritish.

behavior that is deliberately provocative.

Origin of coat-trailing

¹

First recorded in 1925–30; from the phrase trail one's coat, provoking someone to step on it

Words Nearby coat-trailing

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How to use coat-trailing in a sentence

There was nothing in all the world but whiteness, and a silly old bodach with a red coat trailing across it.
The Lost Pibroch | Neil Munro

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