tail end
English
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editFrom Middle English taylende; equivalent to tail + end.
Noun
edit- The hindmost part of anything (a person, animal, or object), the rear end; the butt, buttocks; hindquarters, rump.
- (figurative) 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.
- 2016 December 20, Katie Rife, “Passengers strains the considerable charms of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence”, in The Onion AV Club[1], archived from the original on 23 April 2018:
- An equipment malfunction has woken him up 90 years early, and he’s now doomed to live out the rest of his life surrounded by sushi bars and infinity pools, but not a single human companion.(The other 5,000 passengers on board will wake up at the tail end of the ship’s 120-year voyage to Earth colony Homestead-II.)
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editrear end — see rear end