Caboose

Definitions

1. A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
   obsolete
2. A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
   historical
3. The last car on a freight train, consisting of cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
   US
4. The buttocks.
   childish, euphemistic, slang
5. The person or team in last place.
   slang
6. A youngest child who is born after a long gap in time.
   in-compounds, informal, often

Equivalents

8 more languages

العربيةمطبخ القارب، غرفة صغيرة

Češtinavejškrabek

Cymraegceginfa

Danskefternøler

Esperantopostaĵo

Suomibyssahännänhuippuiltatähtijarruvaunukapyysipeppuperänpitäjä+ 4 more

Nederlandsachterstepoep

Svenskasladdbarn

Examples

“On the second day out, while sailing moderately on our course in the Gulf Stream, a sudden squall of wind struck the ship from the SW. and knocked her completely on her beam-ends, stove one of our boats, entirely destroyed two others, and threw down the cambouse.”

“This stove is to be made in the form⟳ of a Franklin, but is to be furnished with an oven, and other means of cooking; its appearance is therefore more like⟳ that of the old fashioned caboose, than of a Franklin stove.”

“A tremendous billow, fringed with foam, swept over our deck, carrying the cook's caboose, cooking utensils and stove right overboard into the sea.”

“The kitchens were kept separate⟳ because cooking was done in a caboose, a wooden box filled with sand and heated by a wood fire.”

“That's a pretty big caboose for a baby.”

“Jimmy was seven and had just finished first grade, so that made Nancy our caboose baby — our bonus child — our swan song.”

“"Caboose" children, the late-born last⟳ offspring in the family, didn't suffer⟳ from this as much.”

“After looking back on her own⟳ experience⟳, she thought of some ways parents could help⟳ ease the transition for their caboose kid.”

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