caboose

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ca·boose / kəˈboōs/ • n. 1. a railroad car with accommodations for the train crew, typically attached to the end of the train. ∎ inf. (typically referring to a woman) buttocks: she got a sexy caboose.2. archaic a kitchen on a ship's deck.

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caboose

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caboose cook-house (galley) of a ship XVIII; (U.S.) guard's van, etc., on a train XIX. — early modDu. cabūse, var. combūse (now kabuis, kombuis) = (M)LG. kabūse, of unkn. orig.

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