"wholetail" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Blend of wholesale + retail Etymology templates: {{blend|en|wholesale|retail}} Blend of wholesale + retail Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} wholetail (uncountable)
  1. The sale of products to end user at wholesale prices. Tags: uncountable Related terms: warehouse club
    Sense id: en-wholetail-en-noun-YZl7QwIT Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: wholetails [plural]
Etymology: whole + tail Etymology templates: {{compound|en|whole|tail}} whole + tail Head templates: {{en-noun}} wholetail (plural wholetails)
  1. (cooking) An entire tail of seafood. Categories (topical): Cooking
    Sense id: en-wholetail-en-noun-jiTQ-qrj Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Sorry, Willy Loman, but the Internet's disintermediation is squeezing it all down to wholetail.",
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          "ref": "2003 July 23, “Sanjiu Group Sets Up New Branch in Shanghai”, in AsiaInfo Services",
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          "ref": "2008, Sanitary Supply Wholesaling Association, Understanding Jan-San Redistribution, page 23",
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