Rear-end definition

rîrĕnd
rear-ends
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The definition of a rear end is the back of something.

An example of rear end is your buttocks.

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To rear end is to hit the back of someone's vehicle.

An example of rear end is when your car hits the back of someone else's car.

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The back or hindmost part of anything, such as a car.
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(slang) The buttocks.
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Of a vehicle, to strike (another vehicle) from behind.
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The rear part.

The rear end of a car.

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(informal) The buttocks.
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To run into (another motor vehicle) from behind.

My car was rear-ended by a truck.

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The back part of something.
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(slang) The buttocks.
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To crash into, or cause one's vehicle to crash into, the back end of (another vehicle)
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
rear-end
Plural:
rear-ends

Rear-end Sentence Examples

  • In this sight both hind and fore sights are fixed on a rigid bar pivoted about the centre; the rear end is raised or depressed by a rack worked by a hand-wheel; ranges are read from the periphery of a drum; the fore-sight and leaf of the hind-sight are provided with small electric glow lamps for night firing.

  • The rear end of the car danced sideways, bouncing like a horse kicking up its heels.

  • The loaded train is coupled to the main rope, and to the rear end is attached the tail-rope; which reaches to the end of the line, passing there around a large grooved sheave and thence back to the engine.

  • The armature shaft also carried the armature shaft also carried the armature of the auxiliary generator mounted at the rear end.

  • The damper suggested high mileage, while the replaced number plate, he said, hinted at a rear-end collision.

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