单词 | caboose |
释义 | caboose From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Trains & railwayscabooseca‧boose /kəˈbuːs/ noun [countable]American EnglishTTT a small railway carriage at the back of a train, usually where the person in charge of it travels SYN guard’s van British EnglishExamples from the Corpuscaboose• And not a liberalism that merely acquiesces as it looks to personal advancement, the Clinton caboose.• Trailing that problem like a rattling caboose was the need to tell Spider he was quitting.• The runner was nothing more than the caboose.Origin caboose (1700-1800) Dutch cabuis, from Middle Low German kabuse |
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