Rear-end

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    Of a vehicle, to strike (another vehicle) from behind. transitive
  2. 2
    collide with the rear end of wordnet

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"The speeding vehicle skidded and crashed head-on into the rear-end of a truck before the driver could say Jack Robinson."

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