Caboose (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a car on a freight train, used chiefly as the crew's quarters and usually attached to the rear of the train.
  2. a kitchen on the deck of a ship; galley.
  3. the buttocks.
noun
  1. US informal short for calaboose
  2. a guard's van, esp one with sleeping and eating facilities for the train crew
  3. nautical
    • a deckhouse for a galley aboard ship or formerly in Canada, on a lumber raft
    • the galley itself
  4. Canadian
    • a mobile bunkhouse used by lumbermen, etc
    • an insulated cabin on runners, equipped with a stove
Caboose (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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