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語源

From 中期英語 taylende; equivalent to tail +‎ end.

名詞

tail end (plural tail ends)

1. The hindmost part of anything (a person, animal, or object), the rear end; the butt, buttocks; hindquarters, rump.
2. (figurative) The last part of a period of time, event, or situation; the concluding or final part.

   At the tail end of summer.

   The tail end of a lecture.

   The tail end of a conversation.

   • 2016 December 20, Katie Rife, “Passengers strains the considerable charms of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence”, in The Onion AV Club‎, archived from the original on 23 April 2018:

     An equipment malfunction has woken him up 90 years early, and he’s now doomed to live out the rest of his life surrounded by sushi bars and infinity pools, but not a single human companion.(The other 5,000 passengers on board will wake up at the tail end of the ship’s 120-year voyage to Earth colony Homestead-II.)

   • 2025 September 13, Daniel Thomas, “Lunch with the FT: Shonda Rhimes”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     We meet at the tail-end of the Edinburgh TV Festival, normally a hum of desperate pitching and angry gossiping among media executives.

同意語

• fag-end
• rear end
• tag end

派生語

• Tail End Charlie
• tailender

アナグラム

• dential, dealt in, Tindale