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Bookend

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.
  2. 2
    a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else. figuratively

    "The cabinet minister's appearance served as something of a bookend to her grilling by the Home Affairs select committee in April this year[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To come before and after, or at both sides of. figuratively, often, transitive

    "Side one has good songs bookended by better songs."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From book + end.

Etymology 2

From book + end.

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