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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as tail-lamp.

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Examples

  • On October 6, 1976, at approximately 2 a.m., Adolph Lyons, a twenty-four-year-old African-American man, was stopped by four Los Angeles police officers for driving with a burned-out tail-light.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • Deciding to find a restaurant with a per diem of the last bit of cash I had, I was pulled over by a local cop for a bad tail-light, which turned into the jailable offense of driving without insurance.

    Bear Circuit Jesse Crockett 2011

  • Deciding to eat somewhere else on a per diem of the last bit of money I had, I was pulled over by a local policeman for a busted tail-light, that turned into the jailable offense of driving without insurance.

    The Good Year Jesse Crockett 2011

  • They came to the end of the runway and swung round as the lights were extinguished and the second machine climbed slowly from the ground, vanishing into the starry night, its tail-light visible as a wandering star among the other stars.

    In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

  • Stefan's inane tail-light LIBTARD has got to be a joke ...

    Sound Politics: A Seattle story 2007

  • A man with a metal pipe smashed the rear of the ambulance, breaking the tail-light.

    Archive 2009-06-04 philip j cunningham 2009

  • A man with a metal pipe smashed the rear of the ambulance, breaking the tail-light.

    THE NIGHT OF NO MOON philip j cunningham 2009

  • So, the other day, I got pulled over burnt-out tail-light and my insurance card was out-of-date.

    10.27.2009 « Photo-a-Day 2009

  • Headed out into the fog, thick enough that I considered switching on the blinking tail-light on my bike.

    Dewpoints backwards-R us jhetley 2008

  • Not much damage, honestly, just the rear bumper half-collapsed, a tail-light lens cracked, and a small dent in the rear door which did not affect its operation.

    The Gods Of Exercise Are Laughing Their Asses Off polarbear 2006

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