- the back of the skirt on a man's coat or jacket.
- one of the two back parts of the skirt of a coat, especially one of the tails on a tailcoat.
- gained by association with another, especially with a successful or celebrated person: coattail benefits.
- aided by association with another person: The senator rode into office on the president's coattails.
- immediately after or as a result of: His decline in popularity followed on the coattails of the scandal.
- the long tapering tails at the back of a man's tailed coat
- thanks to the popularity or success of someone else
