caboose

noun

kə-ˈbüs How to pronounce caboose (audio)
Definition of caboosenext
as in seat
the part of the body upon which someone sits I couldn't even make it down the bunny slope without ending up on my caboose

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Recent Examples of caboose The caboose nearby originally came from South Dakota. — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 18 June 2026 The dozens of structures included a vintage rail caboose, a log cabin, a yurt, a firehouse and buildings made to look like a Western film set. — David Ingram, NBC news, 14 Mar. 2026 Then there’s a jump to +750 for purple, water/clear at +1000 and red/pink as the caboose (+1200). — J.j. Bailey, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026 The venue is set, rather perfectly, in a building made of shipping containers and an old caboose. — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for caboose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caboose
  1. seat
  2. cheeks
  3. tail
  4. bum
  5. rump
  6. rear
Noun
  • Miller’s calculated the percentage chance that all 35 seats in play will go blue or red virtually in real time.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Jeffries will campaign with Johnny Garcia, who’s running a competitive race in one of those seats where Republicans initially expected an easier pickup (after already forcing one longtime Democratic incumbent to retire).
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of seat
Noun
  • Fort Worth police Officer Buddy Calzada read a letter from Everman Mayor Ray Richardson, who stood in the audience in light blue with tears on his cheeks.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Lauren Jones, a photographer from Savannah, Georgia, told Glamour that after acne-like rashes appeared on her cheeks, her esthetician instructed her to wash only with cold water and her hands for four weeks.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of cheeks
Noun
  • The collision derailed two carriages on the tail of the Iryo train and the front of the Renfe train.
    — JOSEPH WILSON, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The collision derailed two carriages on the tail of the IRYO train and the front of the RENFE train.
    — Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of tail
Noun
  • Zellers poured the foundation, and Morrison hired fellow ski bums to do the framing, masonry, and tiling.
    — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Carl Sandburg’s 1927 American Songbag featured a whole section of hobo songs presenting the bum as a beau ideal.
    — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of bum
Noun
  • This is also why bucks generally have shorter tails than does, and less white on the rump.
    — Tom Carpenter, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Then, pair a Black Angus rump steak, aged for three weeks in herbed butter and redolent of fresh rosemary (€38), with a glass of a spicy-fruity Barolo from the pioneering Piedmont vintner Chiara Boschis (€22).
    — New York Times, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Definition of rump
Noun
  • Clubs across the country sent messages of solidarity and support to the victims of the accident, which also left dozens injured after a high-speed train slammed into the rear of another one that had stopped on the tracks.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • For reasons that are not yet known, the motorcycle struck the rear of a trailer pulled by a 1992 Kenworth tractor driven by Jeffrey Pence Sandy, 62, of Romeo.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of rear

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