caboose
a car on a freight train, used chiefly as the crew's quarters and usually attached to the rear of the train.
British. a kitchen on the deck of a ship; galley.
Slang. the buttocks.
Origin of caboose
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How to use caboose in a sentence
Just make sure you label it so you don’t accidentally drink out of it after it’s been dangerously close to your caboose.
Soon enough, Gossip Girl star Blake Lively had joined his mini-caboose.
The door was on the car when I came out to meet you, and now it's gone, and there's been no body near the caboose but your men.
Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) | John McElroyOf the brown man who was found hiding in the coat closet of the caboose nothing was said.
The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrathOur caboose being gone, and as we had no stove below, we were unable to light a fire to cook anything.
Hurricane Hurry | W.H.G. Kingston
After constant coaxing, they succeeded in gaining unwilling permission to climb up to the engineer's caboose and watch Jim work.
Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest | Lillian Elizabeth RoyDot saw the cables with the grappling hooks swing over her head and dodged down inside the caboose.
Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest | Lillian Elizabeth Roy
British Dictionary definitions for caboose
/ (kəˈbuːs) /
US informal short for calaboose
railways, US and Canadian a guard's van, esp one with sleeping and eating facilities for the train crew
nautical
a deckhouse for a galley aboard ship or formerly in Canada, on a lumber raft
mainly British the galley itself
Canadian
a mobile bunkhouse used by lumbermen, etc
an insulated cabin on runners, equipped with a stove
Origin of caboose
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