Definition of Rear-end

1. Verb. Collide with the rear end of. "The car rear-ended me"

Generic synonyms: Collide With, Hit, Impinge On, Run Into, Strike

Definition of Rear-end

1. Verb. (transitive) Of a vehicle, to strike (another vehicle) from behind. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rear-end

reappropriated
reappropriates
reappropriating
reappropriation
reappropriations
reapproval
reapprovals
reapprove
reapproved
reapproves
reapproving
reaps
reapt
rear(a)
rear-end (current term)
rear-ended
rear-ending
rear-ends
rear-guard
rear-horse
rear-view mirror
rear-view mirrors
rear admiral
rear admiral (lower half)
rear admiral (upper half)
rear admiral lower half
rear admiral upper half
rear back
rear double biceps

Literary usage of Rear-end

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"This second layer is covered with wire, and jacket. The breech bush is screwed into the rear end of the A tube over this U shrunk the chase hoop or В tube ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"So, too, the draft rod in the plaintiff's patent is attached to the shoe in front of the finger beam, instead of at the extreme rear end of the shoe, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"Between the inner side of the boiler B and the rear end vertical flues K and L L', a plate may be employed, indicated by dotted line •w v>. ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The rear end of the shafting twisted off the rear truck as the change to a diagonal had moved it to the corner of that truck from which it tumbled, ..."

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