Definition of "tailgating" []

• An act of driving dangerously close behind another vehicle. (noun)
• Present participle of tailgate. (verb)

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• "M. O'BRIEN: Kind of gives new meaning to the term tailgating, does it?"
• "I actually learned this in Malaysia where tailgating is normal and the clerk at the Hertz Rental Car Agency in Penang told me that if I ran over a local in a village, I should run for it to avoid being lynched on the spot."
• "Assuming, of course that tailgating is a problem that requires huge dots on the road."