TAIL END

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tail end mean? 

• TAIL END (noun)
  The noun TAIL END has 3 senses:

1. the time of the last part of something

2. any projection that resembles the tail of an animal

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

  Familiarity information: TAIL END used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAIL END (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time of the last part of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

fag end; tail; tail end

Context example:

the tail of the storm

Hypernyms ("tail end" is a kind of...):

end; ending (the point in time at which something ends)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any projection that resembles the tail of an animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

tail; tail end

Hypernyms ("tail end" is a kind of...):

projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush

Context example:

are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Hypernyms ("tail end" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("tail end" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

 Context examples 

So that is the tail end of the telegram which Godfrey Staunton dispatched within a few hours of his disappearance.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)