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Tail-end definition

The very end; the conclusion.
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The hindmost part.
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The rear or bottom end of anything.
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The concluding part of anything.
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(informal) The buttocks.
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The rear end of anything; of a person or animal, the butt, buttocks; hindquarters, rump.
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(figuratively) The last part of a period of time, event, or situation; the concluding or final part.

At the tail end of summer. The tail end of a lecture. The tail end of a conversation.

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Alternative form of tail end.

We moved at the tail-end of summer.

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Noun

Singular:
tail-end
Plural:
tail-ends

Origin of tail-end

Tail-end Sentence Examples

  • As Dean rounded a curve, he caught sight of the tail end of a white vehicle speeding down the cliff-hanging road on the far side of the deep valley—a sheriff's white Blazer was his first impression.

  • The larvae are furnished with large heads, powerful mandibles and well-developed legs, but the body-segments are feebly chitinized, and the tail-end is swollen.

  • Quite recently, another mode of budding has been described in Trypanosyllis gemmipara, where a crowd of some fifty buds arising symmetrically are produced at the tail end of the worm.

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