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Definition of dog-end in English: dog-endnoun British informal 1A cigarette end. Example sentencesExamples - Put up litter bins and ash trays for their dog-ends and it just legitimises it more from an acceptability stance.
- I wandered despondently along, trailing my new sports bag through the dog-ends and sweet wrappers that littered the concrete of the playground.
- We now see many bars and establishments in a number of areas around New Zealand where smokers congregate outside, and as we walk past we see dog-ends littering the pavements.
- I stirred it with my foot then stubbed out the dog-end on the linoleum.
Synonyms butt, stub, stump, remnant, fragment, vestige - 1.1 The last and least pleasing part of something.
the dog-end of a hard day Example sentencesExamples - I relaxed into the dog-end of the afternoon to enjoy the loch's beauty, vaguely aware of increasingly frantic efforts from the other end of the boat.
- Budget 2004 was one the government could have done without: an obligatory address in the dog-end of a parliament.
- By this point I had learnt the crucial lesson that however nice the day is, however much you want to hold on to the dog-end of summer, undertaking a three-hour walk in flip-flops is a really stupid idea.
- I guess we can tell that we are at the dog-end when the best the Government can do is present to Parliament bills of this nature for consideration.
- The cartoonists portray the dog-end days of December as Old Man Time, complete with scythe, calling the year to its doom.
- It's December at the dog-end of the last century and Liam slouches on a sofa in a Santa Monica hotel, curling his bottom lip and affecting disinterest.
Definition of dog-end in US English: dog-endnounˈdôɡ ˌendˈdɔɡ ˌɛnd British informal 1A cigarette butt. Example sentencesExamples - We now see many bars and establishments in a number of areas around New Zealand where smokers congregate outside, and as we walk past we see dog-ends littering the pavements.
- I stirred it with my foot then stubbed out the dog-end on the linoleum.
- Put up litter bins and ash trays for their dog-ends and it just legitimises it more from an acceptability stance.
- I wandered despondently along, trailing my new sports bag through the dog-ends and sweet wrappers that littered the concrete of the playground.
Synonyms butt, stub, stump, remnant, fragment, vestige - 1.1 The last and least pleasing part of something.
the dog-end of a hard day Example sentencesExamples - Budget 2004 was one the government could have done without: an obligatory address in the dog-end of a parliament.
- I guess we can tell that we are at the dog-end when the best the Government can do is present to Parliament bills of this nature for consideration.
- It's December at the dog-end of the last century and Liam slouches on a sofa in a Santa Monica hotel, curling his bottom lip and affecting disinterest.
- By this point I had learnt the crucial lesson that however nice the day is, however much you want to hold on to the dog-end of summer, undertaking a three-hour walk in flip-flops is a really stupid idea.
- The cartoonists portray the dog-end days of December as Old Man Time, complete with scythe, calling the year to its doom.
- I relaxed into the dog-end of the afternoon to enjoy the loch's beauty, vaguely aware of increasingly frantic efforts from the other end of the boat.
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