// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the tail say? It's behind in its work.

A tail is the section at the rear end of an animal's body, a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso.

Tail or tails may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Tail (books), a part of a book
• Tails (operating system) or The Amnesic Incognito Live System, a Linux distribution designed for anonymity and privacy
• Tail (Unix), a Unix program used to display the last few lines of a file
• Tail, one of the extreme ends of a probability density function
• Terminal amine isotopic labeling of substrates
• Poly-A tail, part of a mature mRNA

Entertainment

• Tails (album), an album by Lisa Loeb
• Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog), a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
• Tail, a character in the Kaiketsu Zorori movie

Other uses

• Tails, the reverse side of a coin
• Tailcoat or its rear section, a type of coat/suit used for evening dress
• Tail, the final batsmen in the batting order for cricket
• Fee tail or tail, an obsolescent term in common law
• Jabot (window), a kind of soft window treatment

See also

• Aircraft tail, the empennage of an aircraft
• Comet tail, a visible part of a comet
• Tail recursion, a type of recursion in computer programming
• Tail rotor, a small vertical propeller mounted at the rear of a helicopter
• Tailing (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Tail
• All pages with titles containing Tail