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
After that it is a simple enough matter to bring engines and cabooses and start the trains through.
The Modern Railroad | Edward HungerfordOf late years they have been running cabooses, and they generally congregate there themselves.
I believe there was some ten or twelve freight cars burned, and some cabooses burned.
The cabooses were on fire and burning on the tracks at that time.
He saw plenty of other cabooses looking just like it, but none of them was the one he wanted.
Cab and Caboose | Kirk Munroe
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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