rear-ended; rear-ending; rear-ends
: to crash into the back of (a vehicle)
1
: the back part or section of something (such as a motor vehicle)
The preliminary investigation revealed that while traffic was stopped, the driver of a Ford F-150 pickup truck hit the rear end of a Buick passenger car …—
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: buttocks
He's sneaky strong, having increased his bench press to 325 pounds, but his legs remain matchsticks and he has virtually no rear end.—Curry Kirkpatrick
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Examples of rear-end in a Sentence
Noun
She stood up and brushed off her rear end.
The car's rear end was badly damaged in the accident.
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Ed Garsten, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Her car's dash cam, which recorded footage of a gray Honda Sedan intentionally speeding up, cutting in front of her, and then backing into the front of her car to cause a rear-end collision on the Belt Parkway.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2024
Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024
The cheeky marketing campaign for the third Deadpool movie has reached its logical end — a rear end.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 17 July 2024
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Verb
Working with the Automobile Club of Southern California’s Automotive Research Center on a closed-course, each vehicle’s AEB was tested at 12, 25 and 35 miles per hour to see how the automatic braking systems reacted in preventing rear-end collisions.
—Ed Garsten, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Her car's dash cam, which recorded footage of a gray Honda Sedan intentionally speeding up, cutting in front of her, and then backing into the front of her car to cause a rear-end collision on the Belt Parkway.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
The rear end and tail of Ursa Major, the Big Bear, are very close to the horizon.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024
The cheeky marketing campaign for the third Deadpool movie has reached its logical end — a rear end.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 17 July 2024
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“Rear-end.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rear-end. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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