tail end
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- noun
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extremo de la cola
- "I'll join you, may I?" she said, sitting, her tail end used to being warmly received wherever she presented it.
Examples
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So when the arrow hits a tree, the atoms making its tail end continue at the same speed until they fly into the atoms at the front end.
Blog text (16) -
The tail end of a car is just visible.
Fiction book (1996) -
I watched its tail end for any sign of excreta, without result.
Fiction book (1999) -
Then the Rover's tail end swerved all the way around.
Fiction book (1995) -
An aluminum extension ladder was hooked to the side of it, a red flag flying from its tail end.
Fiction book (1991) -
And the first skeleton I found was the tail end of a duck billed dinosaur.
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We traveled south from Chicago and around the tail end of Lake Michigan to the eastern shore and small, polka-dot-like towns of Southwest Michigan known as Harbor Country.
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These semis don't turn very fast, so it had to be in the 316 westbound lanes for a few seconds before he hit the tail end of the trailer.
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The tail end of the parade was filled with children waving colorful balloons.
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He stood at the tail end of the line, waiting patiently for his turn.
Synonyms
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1.0
The rear part of an animal or object that sticks out at the end
A tail that extends from the back of an animal and helps balance
A small piece left at the very end of cloth or ribbon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the rear or final part' is directly and compositionally built from 'tail' (rear appendage) + 'end' (final part); there is no idiomatic shift. This straightforward noun–noun combination follows common compounding patterns and is cross‑linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun tail end comes from the idea of a small part that looks like a tail at the end of something, like the last cars of a parade or a comet's tail. That's why it can mean a 'rear' part or a part that looks like a tail.