tailer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who follows or tails surreptitiously, as an investigator.
noun
A fish bottom-feeding in shallow water with its tail out of the water.
Example Sentences
- "I had to concentrate on staying out of sight, yet close enough not to be stranded on the wrong side of a stoplight. I was working so hard at it that I didn't notice that the tailer had become the tailee."
- "When the car entered the traffic circle I followed after it, the tailed now tailing the tailer. The car's occupants, sure now that they'd been spotted, sped off ahead of me along Dodgers Hole Road."
- "he became aware that he was being tailed. ... turned the action around and tailed the tailer, and then realized that the tailer had not been tailing him"
- "The next step was the invention of the self-tailing device, whereby the need for a tailer, holding the sheet or halyard while another person operated the winch, was eliminated."
Etymology
From tail + -er.