tail end
noun
1.
the hinder or rear part of anything.
2.
the concluding or final part or section; tag end:
the tail end of a lecture.
Origin
1350-1400;
Middle English
Examples from the web for
tail end
We're still technically in the
tail end
of the last ice age.
If the string is too long, the
tail end
of the data overwrites the program's own code.
The jumbo batteries would then power motors, which would drive counter-rotating propellers at the plane's
tail end
.
Maybe you were at the
tail end
of his e-mail pile and he was fed up with reporters trying to game him.
We were coming in on the
tail end
of what they call the fighting season for the insurgency.
British Dictionary definitions for
tail end
tail end
noun
1.
the last, endmost, or final part
Idioms and Phrases with
tail end
tail end
.
The rear or hindmost part, as in
Douglas was at the tail end of the academic procession
.
[
Mid-1700s
]
.
The very end, the conclusion, as in
Only at the tail end of his speech did he thank his sponsors
.
[
Mid-1800s
]