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tail

noun as in (vulgar) buttocks

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verb as in follow

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The iPhone Clean Up tool did OK with the grass, but couldn’t make heads or tails of the tents in the background.

Their reconstruction reveals a tall crest running along the neck and torso, a row of spikes down the tail, and hooves that enclosed the toes.

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Within weeks of arriving, I loathed Madras, where rats stole the padding from my earphones, the humidity left me weak and men tailed my mother in traffic, desperate to buy our imported car.

In the words of one central-bank manager, he quoted, the precious metal is the “ultimate protection against black swan tail risk events”.

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“I tell clients, ‘Don’t let the tax tail wag the dog.’”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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