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
Passengers can choose from luxury cars, open-air viewing areas, or even a private caboose for a more exclusive experience.
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2025
His moving on kind of gave me a kick in the caboose to have courage.
—Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
At the start of the summer season, in June, the brightest stars of Gemini the Twins, Pollux and Castor appear side by side low in the northwest twilight, bringing up the rear of the winter stellar procession in much the same way as the twin marker lights on a caboose bring up the rear of a train.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The restaurant operates out of a caboose parked on the gravel lot.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2025
His moving on kind of gave me a kick in the caboose to have courage.
—Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
At the start of the summer season, in June, the brightest stars of Gemini the Twins, Pollux and Castor appear side by side low in the northwest twilight, bringing up the rear of the winter stellar procession in much the same way as the twin marker lights on a caboose bring up the rear of a train.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The restaurant operates out of a caboose parked on the gravel lot.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caboose
Noun
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Republican heavyweights Young Kim and Ken Calvert are set to battle in Orange County’s only safe GOP seat, a costly primary forced by redistricting.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Life spills outside though, where the terraces offer a front-row seat to the famously dramatic cliffs and sea.—
Angela Tafoya,
Vogue,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Makeup artist Ernesto Casillas applied a flushed, rosy blush to Zendaya's cheeks and mimicked the color with Vuitton's LV Rouge Matte Lipstick in Rose Odysseé on her lips, finishing with a soft brown eye shadow and a few flicks of mascara.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
10 Mar. 2026
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The result was a kind of gasp or snarl configuration of my cheeks and lips.—
Paul Keane,
Hartford Courant,
8 Mar. 2026
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Father and son, both members of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, stare out at a sea of green grass and buffalo berry bushes as a herd of 30 or so bison munch patches of grass, flick their tails at flies, and flop onto the ground, creating brief billows of dust.—
Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
5 Mar. 2026
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Once stationary, deactivate all lights except the hazard flashers, engage the emergency brake, and release the brake pedal to ensure your tail lights remain unlit, minimizing the chance of other drivers colliding with your stationary vehicle.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Mar. 2026
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And Cam, for one, is tired of being talked about as a bum.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
2 Mar. 2026
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What does the phrase squeaky bum time, the racehorse Devon Loch, and the Portuguese proverb ‘morrer na prais’ all have in common?—
Ian Irving,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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The lineage of her home party, Fratelli d’Italia, or Brothers of Italy, traces back to the rump of Mussolini’s fascists.—
Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2026
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In 70 experiments conducted over a few days, Veronika applied the implement exclusively to hard-to-reach areas, like her rump, loin, thurl and navel flap.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The modern extension in the rear of the 19th-century main villa is an elegantly spartan affair that somehow complements the 19th-century edifice and brings in the surrounding foliage.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Mar. 2026
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Both front and rear are electronically controlled, resulting in around 93 horsepower of peak hybrid power from its all-wheel-drive system.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Caboose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caboose. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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