So, I’m over at The Hostages, and the subject of tailgating at college football games comes up. Here was the first entry in the “cool tailgate rigs” contest.
Usually, when I think of tailgating, it is more like this:
When we were in the field for training, we would often lower the ramp until it was parallel with the ground and use it as a table to eat or take a nap. Not as much fun as a barbecue, but you take what you can get.
But Wiser/Wiserbud had the winning entry:
more about “Awesome XXXX Gold Truck – Video“, posted with vodpod
October 4, 2008 at 12:14 pm
We use tailgating to mean the practice of following a vehicle at a very close (unsafe) distance.
Ok the pub truck is cool even if the beer is well….at least it isn’t Fosters.
October 4, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Aaron, tailgating means the same here, depending on context. To cook out in the parking lot of a sporting event (off the tailgate of a pickup truck or station wagon) is an alternative use in idiomatic American English.
October 4, 2008 at 11:21 pm
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November 12, 2008 at 6:09 pm
games…
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