latter end

latter end
   1. the buttocks
   Of the same tendency as bottom. Also in the form latter part.
   2. death
   It should mean no more than our closing years before death:
    I spoke severely, being naturally indignant (at my time of life) to hear a young woman of five-and-twenty talking about her latter end! (W. Collins, 1868 — she was not referring to her anatomy)

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