Definition of "back end" [back end]

• The rear, back, or invisible portion (of something). (noun)
• That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user. (noun)
• The latter end of any given time, especially the latter part of the year; autumn; late autumn. (noun)

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• "(Many of these visitors were the kind that usually traveled in the back end of a super gooney bird and got only close enough to the war effort to collect the same sixty-five dollars a month combat pay that the fighter pilots earned.)"
• "And the sarge in the back end of the tanker lay on his belly, took hold of the controls of his flying refueling boom, aimed one time and rammed the boom into the Thud's nose."
• "It's at the back end of nowhere, the wettest, coldest, unpleasantest piece of real estate you're going to find in this end of the Territories."