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Meanings of tailing in English

Shadowing.

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Usage of tailing in English
1
I was just tailing you, hoping you'd lead me to Ms. Bonner.
Keeping christmas
2
He's probably got someone tailing after the cab right now, just watching.
The inconvenient bride
3
We're better off watching Joseph and tailing anyone he has contact with.
Act of will
4
I was tailing a gent who was playing games off the reservation.
Stop Look and Dig
5
Sean had built his business on tailing cheating spouses and deadbeat dads.
The mighty quinns: liam
6
It doesn't have to be any sort of elaborate tailing operation, Chuanli.
Torch of Freedom
7
The same people who are after you are tailing Rafe as well.
Deadfall
8
Gil added that tailing the husband might lead to a dead body.
Wired
9
The lowing of the tailing-mob in the yard was more prolonged than usual.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life
10
Undercover Dutch police tailing O'Flynn arrested him last August in Utrecht.
The Irish Times
11
Aftershocks that have jolted the region since March 11 have been tailing off.
Reuters
12
She learned that internal security had in fact been tailing her.
Provenance
13
He thought about tailing her, wherever she was headed, but decided against it.
Gutshot straight
14
I see no sign of anyone tailing us, and relax slightly.
The Apocalypse Codex
15
Our people found out exactly who is tailing us up here.
Changes
16
I thought Craig might be tailing you for the same reason I was.
Watch them die
About this term
Tailing through the time
Tailing across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common