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wholetail

noun

Etymology

Blend of wholesale + retail.

  1. compounded as wholetail — “wholesale + retail”

Definitions

  1. The sale of products to end user at wholesale prices.

    • Sorry, Willy Loman, but the Internet's disintermediation is squeezing it all down to wholetail.
    • It has established many branches of retail and wholetail in Eastern China.
    • ABC leverages the MD's web catalog for all 10000 items in their cash-n-carry, "wholetail" store just as Grainger and REI have done.

  2. An entire tail of seafood.

    • a 5oz rump steak and golden deep-fried wholetails of scampi, served with tartare sauce

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA