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tag end

noun

the last or final part of something:
They came in at the tag end of the performance.
a random scrap, fragment, or remnant.

tag end

Origin of tag end¹

First recorded in 1810–20

It was Major Putnam Stone, and as he entered the door he caught the tag end of what one of us was saying.

Everything, and she dug impatiently in the sand with scooping fingers—everything has been left at a tag-end.

Practice was not so much subordinated to knowledge as treated as a kind of tag-end or aftermath of knowledge.

I will look through the tag end of these notes and I think we have reached the end.

At first, even with my fingers on every tag end of information that came out of the terrible area, it was an unnoticeable change.

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