[
UK
/kˈæbuːs/
]
[ US /kəˈbus/ ]
[ US /kəˈbus/ ]
NOUN
- the area for food preparation on a ship
- a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train
How To Use caboose In A Sentence
- There's only one thing I like more than eating my roast beef sandwich, and that's eating my roast beef sandwich in the caboose of the train.
- With this security he had established as his right a caboose abaft the funnel in the midships Bofors gunshield where the gun had been removed.
- The Christmas train consisted of modern passenger carriages, generator cars and a caboose, with a diesel switch engine on either end.
- COOPER: We're looking at the private car on the train, Wolf, mistakenly called a caboose earlier. CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2009
- The caboose starts suddenly, then eases to a gentle roll.
- The caboose starts suddenly, then eases to a gentle roll.
- 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. Overheard at the Wright's Household
- It was a hefty hiner, a colossal caboose, a ginormous jiggler, a gargantuan thong-gobbler, a massive boo-tay. Wilberteets Diary Entry
- For one thing he had lost his caboose, and although he eventually secured a locker for his gear he had to move back on to the messdeck.
- Rule 99 provided that fusees be dropped from the caboose if your train could not maintain track speed.