tail end
noun
1. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
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he deserves a good kick in the butt
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are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
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buttocks, ↑
nates, ↑
arse, ↑
butt, ↑
backside, ↑
bum, ↑
buns, ↑
can, ↑
fundament, ↑
hindquarters, ↑
hind end, ↑
keister, ↑
posterior, ↑
prat, ↑
rear, ↑
rear end, ↑
rump, ↑
stern, ↑
seat, ↑
tail, ↑
tooshie, ↑
tush, ↑
bottom, ↑
behind, ↑
derriere, ↑
fanny, ↑
ass2. the time of the last part of something
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the fag end of this crisis-ridden century
3. any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
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sitting around the house on his tail end — Shirley A. Grau
2. : the hindmost end : the part opposite to the head or inferior to the rest
watched the tail end of the company move out — James Jones
3. : the concluding period
the tail end of a cabinet meeting — A.M.Schlesinger b. 1917
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1. the hinder or rear part of anything.
2. the concluding or final part or section;
tag end:
the tail end of a lecture.
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tail end noun
1. The fag end, final and/or inferior part
2. (in pl) inferior corn sorted out from better
3. Something that comes at the end
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tail end,
1. the hindmost, lowest, or concluding part of anything: »
Our plane landed at the new airfield on the tail end of a sandstorm that had swept against us for some hours (New Yorker).
2. the end or tip of a tail.
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n. [in sing.] the last or hindmost part of something
the tail end of the 19th century | the tail end of a herd of cattle
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noun
the tail end
: the last part of something
I came late to the meeting and only caught the tail end.
She is at the tail end of her career.
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the very last part of sth
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the tail end of the queue
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I only caught the tail end of the conversation.
Useful english dictionary.
2012.