Usually means: Last car on a train.
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  1. caboose: Merriam-Webster
  2. caboose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caboose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caboose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caboose: Vocabulary.com
  6. Caboose, caboose: Wordnik
  7. caboose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Caboose: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. caboose: Wiktionary
  10. caboose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. caboose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. caboose: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Caboose, caboose: Dictionary.com
  14. caboose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Caboose (Red vs. Blue), Caboose (disambiguation), Caboose (ship's galley), Caboose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Caboose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. caboose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. caboose: Rhymezone
  19. Caboose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. caboose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CABOOSE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. caboose: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. caboose: FreeDictionary.org
  24. caboose: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. caboose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. caboose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. caboose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. caboose: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. caboose, caboose: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Caboose: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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  1. Caboose: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete, nautical) A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
noun:  (historical, nautical) A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
noun:  (US, rail transport) The last car on a freight train, having cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
noun:  (slang, childish, euphemistic) The buttocks.
noun:  (slang, sports) The person or team in last place.
noun:  (informal, often in combination) A youngest child who is born after a long gap in time.

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