1. tailing - Noun
2. tailing - Verb
Sexual intercourse.
The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).
The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWillem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off. Jerry Saltz
Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you? David Schwimmer
After tailing the cab, they found "the brown bag yielded approximately 80,000 glassines of suspected heroin/fentanyl." Source: Internet
A number of environmental disasters have followed the overflow of tailing ponds at gold mines. Source: Internet
He was arrested by the Glendale police in 2003, accused of brandishing a handgun at a plainclothes detective who was tailing his cousin, and acquitted after two trials. Source: Internet
Having a tailing comma would make it simpler, easier and homogeneous for editing it. Source: Internet