tailgate party

Slang definitions & phrases for tailgate party

tailgate party

noun phrase
  1. An outdoor party or picnic, typically in the parking lot of a sports stadium, and served on the tailgates of station wagons
  2. A style of jazz said to resemble the early New Orleans sort (Jazz musicians)

[musical sense fr the fact that the tailgate of the band's wagon was left down to give slide-room for the trombone]