"tail end" meaning in English

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        "The hindmost part of anything (a person, animal, or object), the rear end; the butt, buttocks; hindquarters, rump."
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          "text": "An equipment malfunction has woken him up 90 years early, and he’s now doomed to live out the rest of his life surrounded by sushi bars and infinity pools, but not a single human companion.(The other 5,000 passengers on board will wake up at the tail end of the ship’s 120-year voyage to Earth colony Homestead-II.)",
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        "(figurative) The last part of a period of time, event, or situation; the concluding or final part."
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