caboose
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8.6
- noun
- /kəˈbuːs/
- Archaic
:
vagón de cola
- After the freight train stopped, I walked to the caboose to see the crew members at work.
All right, bringing up the caboose and then letting it loose.
- All right, bringing up the caboose and then letting it loose.
- So the childhood story of this little, little, tiny little, not a caboose, but the the the train at the start of the, what would you call it, the first train?
Examples
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Pulling in behind the caboose.
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A caboose is the back end of a train.
Academic text (2008) -
Can we ride in the caboose?
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Two classic passenger cars, a caboose, and a black locomotive.
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The posse made everyone who had been a passenger in the caboose stand out on the platform.
Fiction book (2001) -
This is the caboose.
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Another engine's coming in at 9:45 to pick up... one boxcar and a caboose.
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The crew gathered in the caboose to discuss their plans for the upcoming journey.
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The old caboose was restored and turned into a cozy office for the railroad employees.
Synonyms
1
9.1
The last car on a freight train that used to be a small home or office for the crew
A car at the end of a freight train where the crew rest
Compounds
- Archaic
1
9.1
The last car on a freight train that used to be a small home or office for the crew
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word caboose for the last car on a freight train comes from the same ship word kombuis ('kitchen'), because that car was a small living and working space where the crew ate, slept and worked.