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caboose
/kəˈbuːs/
noun 5
Collocations
4ADJ.
old
VERB + CABOOSE
carrying, fashioned
CABOOSE + NOUN
utensils
PREP.
in, than
Definitions
noun
1
A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
2
A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
On the second day out, while sailing moderately on our course in the Gulf Stream, a sudden squall of wind struck the ship from the SW. and knocked her completely on her beam-ends, stove one of our boats, entirely destroyed two others, and threw down the cambouse.
This stove is to be made in the form of a Franklin, but is to be furnished with an oven, and other means of cooking; its appearance is therefore more like that of the old fashioned caboose, than of a Franklin stove.
3
The last car on a freight train, consisting of cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
4
The buttocks.
That's a pretty big caboose for a baby.
5
The person or team in last place.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the area for food preparation on a ship
- galley
- cookhouse
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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On the second day out, while sailing moderately on our course in the Gulf Stream, a sudden squall of wind struck the ship from the SW. and knocked her completely on her beam-ends, stove one of our boa
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This stove is to be made in the form of a Franklin, but is to be furnished with an oven, and other means of cooking; its appearance is therefore more like that of the old fashioned caboose, than of a
Wiktionary03
A tremendous billow, fringed with foam, swept over our deck, carrying the cook's caboose, cooking utensils and stove right overboard into the sea.
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I'm in the caboose.
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