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To tail back is to form a long line of slowly moving traffic or a traffic jam. British English.
Example of use:
The traffic quickly began to tail back after a lorry crashed in the rush hour.
rush hour – a time of day when there is a lot of traffic; often when people are travelling to work in the morning, and again when travelling home in the evening.
tailback (compound noun) – a long queue of traffic
infinitive – tail back
present simple – tail back and tails back
-ing form – tailing back
past simple – tailed back
past participle – tailed back
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