Meanings
- UKabbreviationcolloquialellipsisidiomaticEllipsis of end of story.
End of, stop sulking / Get out, you're walkin' / Too bad, I've spoken / But when I look at you you're forgiven
1997, “Drop Dead Gorgeous”, performed by Republica4 more examples
‘I came round here to try and help you.’ ‘But no one in here is looking for your help, Keisha! This is it! I ain't looking for you, end of.’
2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 261I decided, right then and there, after he’d been cracked in the head by his mother’s platter of carefully prepared gefilte fish, that not only did it look outwardly like I had the crazy goin’ on, but people were now getting hurt because of me. So end of.
2009, Dakota Cassidy, chapter 1, in Kiss & Hell, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 13Boris Johnson, never one to fuss about detail, does not realise that without a deal there will be no implementation period. No withdrawal agreement means just that—no agreement. Just out. End of. But as both contenders now consider no deal a serious option, we need to be 100% honest about the implications[.]
2019 July 3, Baroness Smith of Basildon,, “Brexit: Appointment of Joint Committee”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), volume 798, column 1445But if you search up a list of news stories on the subject over the years you find, as with the climate crisis, an overwhelming consensus: alcohol is really quite bad for you, end of.
2023 June 14, Adrian Chiles, “Drinking alcohol is bad for you – end of. Ignore the headlines that claim otherwise”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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end of. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/end%20of
“end of.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/end%20of. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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