Trailgater

• Less invasive but equally annoying cousin of the standard tailgater, more commonly encountered at night, usually driving a newer vehicle with "angry eyebrow anime eye" type headlights; LED of course.

• Passive-aggressively invades your AO (area of operation) on a mostly empty highway/freeway by driving directly behind you at a distance which doesn't qualify as tailgating but is uncomfortably suspect given the 4+ other lane options, and peevish--especially because the trailgater will keep and maintain their position for oddly long periods of time.

• Confirmation of a trailgater includes slowing down significantly >10mph and failing to instigate a lane change by the trailgater.

• Trailgaters are also known as "PilotFishGaters" and "WTFyouPsycho".

• Commonly found along the 128/95 in Massachusetts.

"This character has been creeping behind me since the motherfcking Pike exit, guy what a trailgater."

by Ammogirl772 April 29, 2021

Tailgating

To be on someone's tail at the gate

Tailgater: This guy's gonna pass the gate, lemme be on his tail to sneak through the guards
Guards: Yo this guy's so close to that guy, man's prolly tailgating

by ThatHugo542 November 8, 2024

vicarious tailgating

When there is a line of cars behind one person driving slow, and you're somewhere several cars back so you tailgate the person in front of you, who tailgates the person in front of them and so on and so forth until someone is tailgating the slow driver.

Joe: Man, I was five cars back from some old granny today and I couldn't pass... it sucked.

Pete: Dude, you totally should have tried vicarious tailgating.

by albert mcpassingpants June 21, 2010