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tail

 
 
/teɪl/ noun [C]

Translation

ANIMAL the long, narrow part that sticks out at the back of an animal's body
kuyruk
The dog's pleased to see you - he's wagging his tail.2189
BACK PART the back part of something long, such as a plane
uç kısım, kuyruk
1259
the tail end of sth the last part of something
en son bölümü
the tail end of the eighties2289
(Definition of tail noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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