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rearend

rearend is the alternative form of rear end.

rearend is the alternative form of rear-end.

Meaning of rear end

Noun

rear end (plural rear ends)

  1. The back or hindmost part of anything, such as a car.
  2. (slang) The buttocks.
    • Sure, Homer and Marge being caught naked in front of the town is funny, but why not make it total humiliation? Why not have Homer dragged ass-first over a church’s glass ceiling and force the pastor to give praise to God’s floors? Why not have Homer’s rear end block a game-winning field goal?2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club

Meaning of rear-end

Verb

rear-end (third-person singular simple present rear-ends, present participle rear-ending, simple past and past participle rear-ended)

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

Forms of rearend

Noun
pluralrearends
Verb
third-person singular presentrearends
present participlerearending
past participlerearended
pastrearended

Questions about rearend

What is rearend the alternative form of?
Rearend is the alternative form of rear end.

Words near rearend in the dictionary

  1. reared
  2. reared back
  3. reared one's head
  4. reared one's ugly head
  5. reared up
  6. rearend
  7. rearended
  8. rearending
  9. rearends
  10. rearer
  11. rearers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rearend (page history and authors); rear end (page history and authors); rear-end (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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