Tail End

Definition: Tail End

Tail End

Noun

1. The time of the last part of something; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm".

2. Any projection that resembles the tail of an animal.

3. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.

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Industry

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Synonyms: Tail End

End

Noun: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail; (rear); verge; (edge); tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard.

Crosswords: Tail End

Tail End (1938)

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Books

• Tail End Charlie-In Ole #605: The Adventures and Misadventures of a W.W.II Flier (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Close-up of the tail end of a squid, important prey for commercial fish. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

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Albanian

pjesë e prapme, mbarim (closure, conclusion, date, death, end, ending, expiration, finality, finish, leaving, Omega, period, tag, termination), bisht (crook, fag end, flagellum, handle, prat, queue, scape, stalk, stem, stub, tail, tip, train). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نهاية (close, demise, end, ending, fate, fine, fining, finish, limit, stop, tag, termination, terminus), ‏عجيزة (behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, posterior, rear, slat). (various references)

Bulgarian 

опашка (flapper, line, line up, petiole, queue, scut, stern, tail), заключителна част, заключителен период, последна част. (various references)

Czech

úplný konec. (various references)

Dutch

papierstrook (leader). (various references)

Finnish

perä (back, bedrock, butt, rear, stern), päänvientiliuska (leader). (various references)

French

pointe pour engager la feuille, pointe pour engager la bande, bout. (various references)

German

Schwanzende. (various references)

Greek 

ταινία μεταφοράς του ιστού (leader). (various references)

Hebrew 

של�"י (end), קצ�" (border, butt, edge, end, extremity, outskirts, stub, tag end, tip), ז� ב (appendage, butt, rear, stub, stump, tail). (various references)

Hungarian

legvége valaminek. (various references)

Italian

coda (line, queue, tail, train). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

テーベ物語 (beefsteak, project, tail, tail fin, tail lamp, tailcoat, taillight, tailor, tailored, tailored suit, tailor-made, take, taste, Taylor system, tea, teeing ground, teenage, teen-age, teenager, teen-ager, Tegafur, tequila, Texas, Texas hit, Texas leaguer, text, text book, text file, textbook, textile, texture, Thebais, theme, Theme campaign, Theme music, theme park, Theme promotion, Theme song, tilapia, timpani, tissue, tissue paper, tissues, topic, TROFF, tympany, typical, tyranny), ど�"尻 (tailender). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

テールエンド , ど�"じり (tailender). (various references)

Manx

fammanagh (caudal, long-tailed, tailed, taillike), famman (appendage, queue, stem of note, tail). (various references)

Pig Latin

ailtay enday.(various references)

Portuguese

tira de passar o papel (leader), tira (brace, ray, ribbon, screed, shred, slat, strip, stripe). (various references)

Russian 

конец (closing, consummation, curtains, decline, dissolution, end, ending, extremity, finish, heelpiece, latter end, quietus, termination, tip, wind up, windup), заключительная часть (postlude). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rep (coma, end, rear end, tail, trail), kraj (beside, by, corner, end, finish, heelpiece, landscape, lappet, last, parts, tail, termination, terminus). (various references)

Swedish

sluttamp (tag end), slutdel (tail-end). (various references)

Thai

ส่วนท้ายสุ�", สะโพกหรือก้น. (various references)

Turkish

son (afterbirth, bedrock, close, conclusion, conclusive, curtains, definitive, denouement, end, ending, expiration, expiry, extremity, farewell, fate, final, finis, finish, finishing, full, full stop, issue, kiss off, last, late, latest, latter, nth, Omega, outcome, quietus, recent, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, terminal, termination, ultimate, upshot), kıç (arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, buttocks, can, Fanny, fundament, ham, haunches, hindquarters, hip, nates, poop, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, slats, stern, tail, vent), arka uç (rear end). (various references)

Misspellings

"Tail End" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tailend. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alined, denial, dental, dentil, detail, detain, dilate, entail, nailed, tailed, tenail, tineal.

-2 letters: ailed, alien, aline, anile, anted, dealt, delta, elain, eland, elint, entia, ideal, inlet, laden, lated, laten, leant, liane, lined, naled, nidal, teind, telia, tenia, tidal, tilde, tiled, tinea, tined.

-3 letters: adit, aide, alit, anil, ante, anti, dale, date, deal, dean.

+1 letter: bidental, dateline, delating, delation, dentalia, dentinal, divalent, entailed, inflated, lineated, pantiled, tideland.

+2 letters: acidulent, alienated, alimented, almandite, cadential, candlelit, datelined, datelines, dealation, defiantly, deflating, deflation, defoliant, delations, delineate, demential, dentalium, desalting, detailing, disentail, dismantle, flatlined, identical, implanted, initialed, insolated, installed, insulated, interlaid, interlard, laminated, landsleit, latinized, planetoid, tailender, tidelands, toenailed, treadling, unplaited.