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Tail End Charlies

Tail End Charlies is the plural of Tail End Charlie.

Meaning of Tail End Charlie

Noun

Tail End Charlie (plural Tail End Charlies)

  1. (UK, slang) The last aircraft in a formation.
  2. (UK, slang) The rear gunner in a bomber.
  3. (slang) The man guarding the rear of a patrol.
  4. (slang) The southernmost thunderstorm in a band of storms, often subject to the best conditions for strengthening.

Forms of Tail End Charlies

alternative formTail-End Charlies

Questions about Tail End Charlies

What is Tail End Charlies the plural of?
Tail End Charlies is the plural of Tail End Charlie.

Words near Tail End Charlies in the dictionary

  1. tail down
  2. tail dragger
  3. tail draggers
  4. tail end
  5. Tail End Charlie
  6. Tail End Charlies
  7. tail ends
  8. tail event
  9. tail events
  10. tail feather
  11. tail feathers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tail End Charlies (page history and authors); Tail End Charlie (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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