| 单词 | tail-ender |
| 释义 | > as lemmastail-ˈender tail-ˈender n. one that is at the tail-end (now esp. in Sport). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > one who or that which > one who or that which comes last lagc1530 lattermost1627 tail-ender1885 tail-end Charlie1941 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > racer > types of dead-heater1868 distance runner1868 pacemaker1884 tail-ender1885 pacer1893 distancer1911 finisher1963 1885 Sydney Mail 28 Feb. 451/4 Garrett and Evans, the ‘tail-enders’, established themselves..firmly at the wickets. 1895 Outing 26 31/1 Six teal flew across the water, and I downed the tailender. 1908 Daily Chron. 8 Jan. 5/7 The Australians..failed because they could not get our tail-enders out. 1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. 360/3 The St. Louis Cardinals, whom the writer designates as ‘almost chronic tail-enders’, are, in regard to the amounts spent for new players, just about the same. 1955 Times 23 June 17/1 It has certainly been focused so far on the leaders rather than the tail-enders in the various markets. One possible brake on the rise..is an increase in the corpus of securities. 1961 Sunday Express 7 May 1/6 Both men were lapping the tailenders now. 1977 World of Cricket Monthly June 24/2 Eric was also the better batsman, Alec being more of the hard-hitting tailender type. 1980 A. Crawley Dial 200-200 ix. 98 ‘You might have been killed yourself.’ ‘Not much chance; the raid had already gone past us. It would have had to be a tail-ender, like the one that got the maid.’ < as lemmas |
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