单词 | tail-end Charlie |
释义 | tail-end Charlienoun informal 1A person or thing that brings up the rear in a group or formation.This will temporarily address potential supply shortages but it will also mean higher prices as the UK becomes the tail-end Charlie of the western European gas market....
1.1A member of the crew of a military aircraft who operates a gun from a compartment at the rear.The first commissioned rear-gunner in the RAF during the Second World War, he was nick-named "Tail End Charlie" by his crew and that name rapidly became adopted for all rear-gunners in the RAF....
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