tails

[ teylz ]

/ teɪlz /

adjective, adverb

(of a coin) with the reverse facing up: On the next toss, the coin came up tails.Compare heads.

noun

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Origin of tails

First recorded in 1675–85; tail¹ + -s¹

Words nearby tails

tailpiece, tailpipe, tail plane, tailrace, tail rotor, tails, tail skid, tailspin, tailstock, tailwater, tail wheel

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Example sentences from the Web for tails

Chicken satay and shrimp cocktail are also good options, as you can watch the skewers and tails stack up.
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She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”
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Google has more than a million hits—and countless images—for the term “babies born with tails.”
The Crazy Way Creationists Try To Explain Human Tails Without Evolution|Karl W. Giberson|June 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And yet the dioramas of Adam and Eve in the Creation Museum do not picture them with tails, for some reason.
My Debate With an ‘Intelligent Design’ Theorist|Karl W. Giberson|April 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I have no idea how Intelligent Design theorists explain humans with tails.
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The two horses, instinctively drawing close together, turned their tails to the driving flakes.
Two on the Trail|Hulbert Footner
Just fancy, I saw rats and ran about on all fours to put a grain of salt under their tails.
L'Assommoir|Emile Zola
The tails of the Nejd horses are as peculiar as their heads, and are as essential to their beauty.
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After a time his displeasure abated, as he caught sight of a dish of Syrian lambs' tails, dressed with spices, a favourite dainty.
Herodias|Gustave Flaubert
One could find nothing but paper money, and a five-franc note was of no use in a matter of heads or tails!
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British Dictionary definitions for tails

tails

/ (teɪlz) /

pl n

an informal name for tail coat

interjection, adverb

with the reverse side of a coin uppermost: used as a call before tossing a coinCompare heads

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interjection, adverb