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Yes, that's been the term for a front storage compartment since at least the 1970s.
Yeah, front storage went away for a while when air cooling faded away and rear-engined cars became exclusively rich guy sportscars. Now that EVs are becoming more common, most of them have a little storage compartment under the hood or bonnet, so frunk is becoming a more popular term again.
I think tailgate is still the correct term even where the rear storage is the boot, but I've heard it more colloquially called a "boot lid"
Yep! North Americans also call driving too close (and partying out of the back of ones car as one might pregame outside a sporting event) tailgating for the same reason: proximity to the vehicle's tailgate.
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