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Definition: Coattails |
CoattailsNoun1. (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same party; "he was elected senator on the president's coattails". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coattails" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Synonym: CoattailsSynonym: coattails effect (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Coattails |
| Specialty definitions using "coattails": Handkerchief. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | John D. Rockefeller, Jr., attaching a can to the coattails of a puritanical character representing the Prohibitionists. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day -- an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward. |
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Expressions using "coattails": coattails effect ♦ on the coattails of. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "coattails"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | frakkszárny. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oattailscay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Coattails" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coatail. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coattails" (pronounced kō"ttā'lz) |
| 4 | -t ā' l z | cocktails, dovetails, horsetails, retails, telltales. |
| 3 | -ā' l z | females, fingernails, guardrails, monorails, resales, toenails, wholesales. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tailcoats. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: cattails, cattalos, coattail, statical, tailcoat. | |
-2 letters: altoist, asocial, astatic, catalos, cattail, cattalo, citolas, coastal, solatia, stoical. | |
-3 letters: attics, casita, catalo, citola, coalas, coatis, coital, costal, cottas, scotia, social, statal, static, ticals, totals. | |
-4 letters: alias, alist, altos, ascot, atilt, atlas, attic, calos, clast, clits, clots, coala, coals, coast, coati, coats, coils, colas, colts, costa, cotta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-o-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: lactations. | |
+2 letters: catabolites. | |
+3 letters: acetylations, altercations, anecdotalist, apocalyptist, articulators, artiodactyls, auscultation, catholicates, facilitators, intercoastal, spectatorial. | |
+4 letters: abstractional, anecdotalists, antisocialist, apocalyptists, articulations, astronautical, atomistically, auscultations, autocatalysis, cantillations, capitulations, facilitations, isostatically, nationalistic, noncapitalist, placentations, rationalistic, sacerdotalist, scholasticate, transactional, translocating, translocation, ultracautious, vocationalist. | |
+5 letters: acculturations, actualizations, aeroelasticity, anticoagulants, anticonvulsant, antihistorical, antimetabolics, antineoplastic, antisocialists, asymptotically, biostatistical, cartelizations, consubstantial, cytostatically, educationalist, hypostatically, intercalations, italicizations, matriculations, noncapitalists, nonstatistical, plasticization, postcapitalist, sacerdotalists, satisfactorily, scholasticates, stochastically, transductional, translocations, vocationalists. | |
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