tag end

noun

1. the last or final part of something:

   They came in at the tag end of the performance.

2. a random scrap, fragment, or remnant.

tag end

noun

1. the last part of something

   the tag end of the day

2. a loose end of cloth, thread, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of tag end¹

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

It was Major Putnam Stone, and as he entered the door he caught the tag end of what one of us was saying.

From Project Gutenberg

Everything, and she dug impatiently in the sand with scooping fingers—everything has been left at a tag-end.

From Project Gutenberg

Practice was not so much subordinated to knowledge as treated as a kind of tag-end or aftermath of knowledge.

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I will look through the tag end of these notes and I think we have reached the end.

From Project Gutenberg

At first, even with my fingers on every tag end of information that came out of the terrible area, it was an unnoticeable change.

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Related Words

• fragment
• particle
• remnant