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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ca•boose /kəˈbus/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Rail Transporta car on a freight train, used as a place for the crew to eat and sleep and usually attached to the rear of the train.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ca•boose (kə bo̅o̅s′),USA pronunciation n. - Rail Transporta car on a freight train, used chiefly as the crew's quarters and usually attached to the rear of the train.
- British Terms, Naval Termsa kitchen on the deck of a ship;
galley. - [Slang.]the buttocks.
- early modern Dutch cabūse (Dutch kabuis) ship's galley, storeroom; compare Low German kabuus, kabüse, Middle Low German kabuse booth, shed; further origin, originally uncertain
- 1740–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: caboose /kəˈbuːs/ n - US informal
short for calaboose - US Canadian a guard's van, esp one with sleeping and eating facilities for the train crew
- a deckhouse for a galley aboard ship or formerly in Canada, on a lumber raft
- chiefly Brit the galley itself
- Canadian a mobile bunkhouse used by lumbermen, etc
- an insulated cabin on runners, equipped with a stove
Etymology: 18th Century: from Dutch cabūse, of unknown origin |