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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Football The back on an offensive team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage.

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  1. n. A line of motor vehicles caught up in traffic congestion; a traffic jam

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (American football) the person who plays tailback
  2. n. (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage

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  • bilby "A man in Germany discovered the dangers of driving an open-top car when an envelope containing 23,000 euros (£20,600) blew off the back seat.
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    Police closed the road in both directions for half an hour to search for the missing money. All but 3,000 euros was recovered.
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    The motorway closure caused long tailbacks in both directions."
    - German motorway strewn with notes, BBC website, 15 May 2009. May 15, 2009

  • chained_bear "Piping takes a vast amount of mental time, and some occupations are better for this than others: policemen used to say traffic duty was just grand for the purpose. Indeed a famous Hebridean piper/policeman banished to a busy city junction because he hadn't arrested anybody for years ('Well,' he said, 'how would you like to be arrested?') used to produce spectacular tailbacks on a Saturday afternoon."
    —William Donaldson, Pipers: A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005), 2 Jul 27, 2008

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