Caboose

Word CABOOSE
Character 7
Hyphenation ca boose
Pronunciations /kəˈbuːs/

Definitions and meanings of "Caboose"

What do we mean by caboose?

The last car on a freight train, often having kitchen and sleeping facilities for the train crew, and used as a vantage point for spotting problems on the train, such as smoking brakes or the separation of cars. The introduction of electronic sensors has made the caboose unnecessary. noun

A ship's galley. noun

Any of various cast-iron cooking ranges used in such galleys during the early 1800s. noun

An outdoor oven or fireplace. noun

The cook-room or kitchen on shipboard; a galley; specifically, the inclosed fireplace, hearth, or stove used for cooking on small vessels. noun

A car for the use of the conductor, brakemen, etc., on a freight-train. noun

An inclosed wagon for conveying workmen to mines. noun

A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley. noun

A car used on freight or construction trains as travelling quarters for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car. It usually is the last car of the train. noun

A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel. noun

The last car on a freight train, having cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van. noun

Buttocks noun

The area for food preparation on a ship noun

A car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train noun

A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.

A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.

The last car on a freight train, having cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.

Buttocks

The person or team in last place.

A youngest child who is born after a big gap in time.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Caboose

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The word "caboose" in example sentences

It is useful to point out the desired behavior in other children-"See how nicely that boy is playing with others"-but parents should refrain from adding what he calls the "caboose"-a phrase like "Why can't you do that?" ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is useful to point out the desired behavior in other children—"See how nicely that boy is playing with others"—but parents should refrain from adding what he calls the "caboose"—a phrase like "Why can't you do that?" ❋ Shirley S. Wang (2011)

And, sure enough, across the street was a bright red train caboose sitting on its own bit of track with nothing around it, carefully set up so that a child could climb up and play on the outside parts. ❋ Arhyalon (2008)

Feel like taking in a film at your favorite theatre but can’t find enough energy to move your caboose from the comfort of your cozy domestic den? ❋ Unknown (2006)

In fact, a caboose is a caboose when it's a caboose. ❋ Unknown (2009)

COOPER: We're looking at the private car on the train, Wolf, mistakenly called a caboose earlier. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It looked like the caboose was attached to the engine as it wound around the track in a full circle. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"caboose" -- as the cook was jocularly termed -- ordered me about with a fierce exultation, that he had one white skin that he could command! ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

In July, Corrado Calabro, head of Italy's telecommunications regulator Agcom, called Italy the "caboose" of European e-commerce because e-commerce generates only 3.9% of its GDP compared to the EU average of 5%. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Don't pull out until I get back," warned Jim, as he started on a trot toward one of the rear Pullmans, called a "caboose" by the flippant Bob. ❋ Wyn Roosevelt (N/A)

In the old "caboose" where he edited, set up, and printed his newspaper he had established a small chemical laboratory, and out of these chemicals there is said to have been jolted one day an accident which caused him some unpopularity with the railroad people. ❋ James W. Steele (N/A)

There is a movable 'caboose' in the 'cats' right amidships, in which three or four men packed close side by side can lie; but if you want to turn you must wake up the rest of the company and turn all together -- so visitors to Deal are informed. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

DETROIT FREE PRESS, he installed it in a spingless car, or 'caboose' of the train meant for a smoking-room, but too uninviting to be much used by the passengers. ❋ John Munro (1889)

Page 215 with a wretched "caboose" in the rear, going out in a few minutes. ❋ Elizabeth Willits Crooks (1875)

On one occasion, in going to meet an appointment in the southern part of the Sucker State -- that section of Illinois called Egypt -- Lincoln, with other friends, was traveling in the "caboose" of a freight train, when the freight was switched off the main track to allow a special train to pass. ❋ Unknown (1868)

One recent addition is a gift shop in an old Northern Pacific caboose which is open most weekends and on special occasions. ❋ By MARY JEAN KELSO LVN Correspondent (2009)

"caboose" aboard, we could look at a duck without wishing its destruction. ❋ Joshua Slocum (1877)

He hitched his lead-filled caboose to professional sports as a broadcaster of little renown (after a couple of Top 40 stints under such memorable monikers like “Rusty Sharpe” and “Jeff Christie”) and spent a lot of time cozying up to equally politically retrograde actual athletes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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