wholetail

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English

Etymology 1

Blend of wholesale +‎ retail

Noun

wholetail (uncountable)

  1. The sale of products to end user at wholesale prices.
    • 1999 November 18, “Believe Your Eyes, The New Economy Is Real”, in Wall Street Journal Online:
      Sorry, Willy Loman, but the Internet's disintermediation is squeezing it all down to wholetail.
    • 2003 July 23, “Sanjiu Group Sets Up New Branch in Shanghai”, in AsiaInfo Services:
      It has established many branches of retail and wholetail in Eastern China.
    • 2008, Sanitary Supply Wholesaling Association, Understanding Jan-San Redistribution, page 23:
      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.
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Etymology 2

From whole +‎ tail.

Noun

wholetail (plural wholetails)

  1. (cooking) An entire tail of seafood.
    a 5oz rump steak and golden deep-fried wholetails of scampi, served with tartare sauce
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