It's like when someone imitates someone else or does something cool after someone else already made it cool, basically saying someone is "riding the coat tails" of the person before them.
I did that already, gj coattails. Fucko.
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to increase one's reputation through connections to someone with a better reputation
He Rode his friend's coattails to get privileges otherwise reserved for Corporate executives. (example of Ride coattails)
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One who excels at the act of coattailing. A professional coattailer.
After my presentation, the coattail cowboy was trying to take credit for my work.
(n.) Usually male, a person who tries to leverage previous face time to sleep with or "date" someone that's been involved with a friend.
Bob only met Sarah because I was dating her, and as soon as we broke up, he asked her out. What a coattail rider.
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Any additional thank you's added to an original thank you. A coattail thank you requires less sincerity and initiative.
Boy 1: Hey Dad, thanks for buying us this yacht!
Boy 2: Yeah thanks.
Boy 1: You're stealing my thank you! That was a coattail thank you!
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The act of crossing the street because someone before you has already crossed and caused traffic to stop. In effect, jay walking because someone else already has.
I rode on this guy's Jay Walking Coattails after he jumped in front of traffic and caused a 30 car pile up.
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Men with little talent or life skills who ride the "coattails" of the attractive females to get by in live.
A guy with a hot girlfriend that positions himself as her "manager," "agent" or "mandatory co-participant" in modeling/sex worker activities.
Mediocre Male porn actor who establishes clout through his more popular and sought after girlfriend/partner.
"You can't work with Destiny, unless you book Chad, her Coattail Bro."