tail end

tail end
noun
1. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
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he deserves a good kick in the butt

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are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

• Syn:
↑buttocks, ↑nates, ↑arse, ↑butt, ↑backside, ↑bum, ↑buns, ↑can, ↑fundament, ↑hindquarters, ↑hind end, ↑keister, ↑posterior, ↑prat, ↑rear, ↑rear end, ↑rump, ↑stern, ↑seat, ↑tail, ↑tooshie, ↑tush, ↑bottom, ↑behind, ↑derriere, ↑fanny, ↑ass
• Derivationally related forms: ↑posterior (for: ↑posterior)
• Hypernyms: ↑body part
• Part Holonyms: ↑torso, ↑trunk, ↑body
2. the time of the last part of something
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the fag end of this crisis-ridden century

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the tail of the storm

• Syn: ↑fag end, ↑tail
• Hypernyms: ↑end, ↑ending
3. any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
• Syn: ↑tail
• Hypernyms: ↑projection

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noun
Etymology: Middle English tailende, from tail + ende end — more at end

sitting around the house on his tail end — Shirley A. Grau

2. : the hindmost end : the part opposite to the head or inferior to the rest

watched the tail end of the company move out — James Jones

3. : the concluding period

the tail end of a cabinet meeting — A.M.Schlesinger b. 1917

4. : tail 9b

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1. the hinder or rear part of anything.
2. the concluding or final part or section; tag end: the tail end of a lecture.
[1350-1400; ME]

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tail end noun
1. The fag end, final and/or inferior part
2. (in pl) inferior corn sorted out from better
3. Something that comes at the end
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Main Entry: ↑tail

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tail end,
1. the hindmost, lowest, or concluding part of anything: »

Our plane landed at the new airfield on the tail end of a sandstorm that had swept against us for some hours (New Yorker).

2. the end or tip of a tail.

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n. [in sing.] the last or hindmost part of something

the tail end of the 19th century | the tail end of a herd of cattle

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noun
the tail end
: the last part of something

I came late to the meeting and only caught the tail end.

the tail end of summer

She is at the tail end of her career.

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ˌtail ˈend [tail end] noun singular
the very last part of sth

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the tail end of the queue

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I only caught the tail end of the conversation.


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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