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long-tail (iou)



long-tail noun. L16.
[from LONG adjective1 + TAIL noun1.]
A long-tailed animal; formerly, a dog or horse with the tail uncut; a long-tailed bird, spec. (a) the long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis; (b) the white-tailed tropic bird, Phaethon lepturus; (c) dial. a pheasant. L16.
A native of the county of Kent in SE England (in allusion to the jocular imputation that the people of Kent had tails). Long obsolete exc. dial. E17.
Comb.: long-tail pair Electronics orig., a pair of matched valves connected to a common large resistor; now usu., a pair of matched bipolar transistors with their emitters so connected.