tail end

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tail end

1. The hindmost part.

2. The very end; the conclusion.

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tail end

the last, endmost, or final part

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tail′ end′

1. rear end.

2. the concluding or final part; tag end: the tail end of a lecture.

[1375–1425]

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Noun	1.	tail end - the time of the last part of something; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm" fag end, tail end, ending - the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period"
	2.	tail end - any projection that resembles the tail of an animal tail projection - any solid convex shape that juts out from something
	3.	tail end - the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" arse, ass, behind, buns, buttocks, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, derriere, fanny, rear end, tooshie, tush, seat, fundament, backside, bottom, rump, stern, tail, rear, bum, can, butt body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity torso, trunk, body - the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"

tail end

noun

The hindmost part of something:

end, rear, tag end, tail.

Translations

tail end

n (of party, meeting) → fine f; (of train, procession) → coda
to be at the tail end of the procession/queue → essere in coda alla processione/in fondo alla coda

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Indeed, it was such a thundering poor success that it raised wondering scowls all along the line, and a gorgeous flunkey at the tail end of it raised his whip; but I jumped in time and was under it when it fell; and under cover of the volley of coarse laughter which fol- lowed, I spoke up sharply and warned the king to take no notice.

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When Captain Hansen lighted the fuse and hooked the fish hook into the tail end of a native's loin cloth, that native was smitten with so an ardent a desire for the shore that he forgot to shed the loin cloth.

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The extraordinary timber projections which I have seen in no other vessel made her square stern resemble the tail end of a miller's waggon.

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

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Everybody 'ud be wanting bread made o' tail ends and everybody 'ud be running after everybody else to preach to

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MIRPURKHAS -- Sadrat one feder Shakh tail end growers staged a protest against acute shortage of irrigation water at workshop local press club here on Monday .The protest was led by Muhammad Rafiq ,Altaf Hussain Jatt , Dado Bugti , Nazir Bugti , and Sarwar Khoso carrying banners and placards and raised slogans against the SDO Khadro irrigation department.

Sadrat one feeder, growers protest against water shortage

Office bearers of farmers organization association Mirpurkhas Muhammad Ismail Shaikh, Badar Alam, Imamdin Maher, Javed Babar, Razzaque Arain and others talking to media persons blamed that irrigation department officers and staff were responsible of artificial shortage of water in tail end areas as water supply with small gauge in tail end areas have been causing severally affecting the cotton and chili sowing in past also as there was season of sowing of the both crops but at this time not availability of required quantity of water would cause of severally affecting the sowing of above crops as result in future production of the above crops would be reduced in this region.

Water shortage draws growers ire

They said that acute water shortage had hit the tail end growers.

Hari Tehreek, AT hold demo against water scarcity

The water theft by the farmers with agricultural lands near the head regulator of a waterway creates acute shortage for the tail end farmers.

Rangers out to check water theft in Dadu district

Badin -- The shortage of agri-water across the district would be finshed soon and water till the tail end would be assured.

Agri-water shortage to end soon

Being at the tail end, these subdivisions were facing shortage of water despite supply of 13,600 cusec in Nara Canal head.