caboose
noun
a car on a freight train, used chiefly as the crew's quarters and usually attached to the rear of the train.
cabooses
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pluralof caboose.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And now, not only do we know they risked riders’ lives for years, but the swift action to cover their cabooses cripples the region’s infrastructure.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2021
Somewhere on Frankfort Avenue live dinosaurs, buffalo, long-horned cattle, steam engines and cabooses.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 18, 2016
In the long run, though, two-man crews may become another relic of the industry, “The same way nobody still thinks we need cabooses on the back of trains,” said Grady Cothen, former administrator at the FRA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2016
This is a guy who speaks of himself in the third person and speaks of cabooses.
From Time ● Nov. 10, 2011
That was a subject which commended itself to his saturnine spirit, and in his description he deigns to speak of the "stuffy cabooses" into which the country people were crowded when the Lacedæmonians invaded Attica.
From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve
