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noun
the hinder or rear part of anything.
the concluding or final part or section; tag end: the tail end of a lecture.
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Origin of tail end Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Words nearby tail end tail coat ,
tail cone ,
tail covert ,
tailed ,
tailed frog ,
tail end ,
tail fan ,
tail fin ,
tailfirst ,
tailgate ,
tailgater
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Words related to tail end appendage ,
behind ,
butt end ,
buttocks ,
conclusion ,
empennage ,
end ,
extremity ,
fag end ,
posterior ,
rear ,
rear end ,
rump ,
stub ,
tag end ,
tailpiece ,
tush ,
wagger
How to use tail end in a sentence What would later be called the Fairness Doctrine originated in 1949 at the tail end of a media reform movement whose initial goal — going back to the 1930s — was to carve out a noncommercial sector on the nation’s airwaves.
There were some slight differences at the tail end of the top 5 names for Washington dogs.
New analysis shows that this spike is probably just the tail end of an early bombardment, the one that grew the planets in the first place.
While consumer intent through search behavior has significantly improved reach at the very tail end of the journey — highlighting in-market buyers — a vast majority of the prospect pool remains upstream in the journey on the open web.
Considering his age, Harden probably is at the tail end of his prime.
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.
In the end, I find it never fails to modernize even the most dramatic things.
Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?
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British Dictionary definitions for tail end
noun
the last, endmost, or final part
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Other Idioms and Phrases with tail end
1 The rear or hindmost part, as in Douglas was at the tail end of the academic procession . [Mid-1700s]
2 The very end, the conclusion, as in Only at the tail end of his speech did he thank his sponsors . [Mid-1800s]
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