REAR-END

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rear-end mean? 

• REAR-END (verb)
  The verb REAR-END has 1 sense:

1. collide with the rear end of

  Familiarity information: REAR-END used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REAR-END (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rear-end    ... he / she / it rear-ends   
Past simple: rear-ended   
Past participle: rear-ended   
-ing form: rear-ending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collide with the rear end of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The car rear-ended me

Hypernyms (to "rear-end" is one way to...):

collide with; hit; impinge on; run into; strike (hit against; come into sudden contact with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something