Coattail

Synonyms for "coattail" (5 found)

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Related words (2)

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Translations

11 translations across 7 languages.

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Danish

2 entries
  • frakkeskøde noun (flap at the back of a coat)
  • slipstrøm noun (transferred success)

Finnish

2 entries
  • hännys noun (flap at the back of a coat)
  • lieve noun (flap at the back of a coat)

French

1 entries
  • pan noun (flap at the back of a coat)

German

2 entries
  • Frackschoß noun (flap at the back of a coat)
  • Schoß noun (flap at the back of a coat)

Irish

1 entries
  • triopall casóige noun (flap at the back of a coat)

Polish

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  • poła noun (flap at the back of a coat)

Spanish

2 entries
  • faldón trasero noun (flap at the back of a coat)
  • éxito transferido noun (transferred success)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.

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to ride the coattails

Source: wiktionary

Mr Obama’s coat-tails may help lift Wall-Street-basher Elizabeth Warren past pickup-driving Everyman and one-time nude pin-up Scott Brown in Massachusetts[…].

Source: wiktionary

And Harford grabs the coattails of the trend, giving us 10 rules for thinking differently about numbers in the news, ranging from “check your feelings”, to “ponder your personal experience”, to “keep an open mind”.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.