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caboose
[ kuh-boos ]
noun
- 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.
caboose
/ kəˈbuːs /
noun
- See calabooseinformal.short for calaboose
- railways 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
- the galley itself
- a mobile bunkhouse used by lumbermen, etc
- an insulated cabin on runners, equipped with a stove
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Example Sentences
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.
Of the brown man who was found hiding in the coat closet of the caboose nothing was said.
Our caboose being gone, and as we had no stove below, we were unable to light a fire to cook anything.
After constant coaxing, they succeeded in gaining unwilling permission to climb up to the engineer's caboose and watch Jim work.
Dot saw the cables with the grappling hooks swing over her head and dodged down inside the caboose.
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