Answer to "Brings up the rear" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LAGS which also is the latest solution we found used in Universal uClick in 2014.

Brings up the rear crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
LAGS	84 %	4
TRAILS	5 %	6
COMESINLAST	5 %	11
MOONS	5 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Brings up the rear

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• caboose
• nurse
• bringing
• raise
• parent
• breed
• rare
• fetch
• foster
• nurture
• rearward
• noursle

Crossword Answer definitions

LAGS noun

1. A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
2. Delay; latency.
3. One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
4. A prisoner, a criminal.
5. A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
6. One who lags; that which comes in last.
7. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
8. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
9. A bird, the greylag.

LAGS verb

1. To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
2. To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer)
3. To transport as a punishment for crime.
4. To cause to lag; to slacken.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result LAGS

• Is sluggish
• Runs behind
• Brings up the rear
• Dawdles
• Stays behind
• Falls behind
• Holds up
• Time delays
• Doesn't keep up
• Internet connectivity problems

More clues leading to the result TRAILS

• Roy Rogers' "Happy ___"
• Backpacker's byways
• Is following
• Park ways
• Falls behind
• Hiker's paths
• Park features
• Skiing sites
• Hiking paths
• Some forest map lines

More clues leading to the result COMESINLAST

• Brings up the rear

More clues leading to the result MOONS

• Stares absent-mindedly
• Io and Callisto
• Orbiters of orbiters
• Indulges in reverie
• Phobos and Deimos, e.g.
• Stares wistfully into space
• Planet orbiters
• Planetary orbiters
• Satellites
• Jupiter's Io and Callisto