The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TAILGATE
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More clues leading to the result TAILGATE
- Do this and agitate learner driver recklessly?
- Closely follow The Three Blind Mice scandal?
- What pushy drivers do to gain entrance to estate
- Closely follow what pops up in the tagliatelli
- Drive too close, creating flap
- Soldiers smuggling gun into French island drive dangerously
- Closely follow the scandal of the Three Blind Mice?
- Trouble with grand appearance through gallery’s rear door
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The straight part
We know that "What pushy drivers do" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case what pushy drivers do = tailgate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TAILGATE mean?
TAILGATE noun- A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailboard.
- The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
- Either of the downstream gates in a canal lock.
- To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
- To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
- (of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
- To have a tailgate party.