Tear around neighbourhood, nearly causing prang (4-3)
I believe the answer is:
rear-end
'prang' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'tear around neighbourhood nearly' is the wordplay.
'tear' becomes 'rend' (rending is a kind of tearing).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'neighbourhood' becomes 'area' (a neighbourhood is an urban area).
'nearly' means to remove the last letter.
'area' with its final letter removed is 'are'.
'rend' going around 'are' is 'REAR-END'.
'causing' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rear-end that I've seen before include "Crash into another vehicle from behind (US)" , "hit a vehicle" , "Crash into back of another vehicle" .)