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 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 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 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
  • The audience giggled nervously as their seats rocked and rolled during the tense chase scene, and whenever the dinosaur went in for an attack, a squirt of water shot out from behind each audience member’s seat.
    — Matt Minton, Variety, 19 July 2026
  • Each business-class, lie-flat seat can bring in close to $10,000 on some long-haul international routes compared with $2,000 or even much less for a seat in the back.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 19 July 2026
Definition of seat
Noun
  • As their national anthem played before the match, tears streamed down the cheeks of the Argentina players, emphasizing their emotional investment in the occasion.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
  • As for beauty, Lopez was glowing to the max with luminous glam, complete with rosy cheeks, shimmery eyeshadow, glossy lips, and long, patterned nails.
    — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 17 July 2026
Definition of cheeks
Noun
  • The flashbacks deliver some classic cat-and-mouse conspiracy-thriller action, as these two try to figure out who’s on their tail.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 July 2026
  • In the underwater video, an adult female orca is seen holding onto a dead sharp-tail sunfish that the group had previously killed.
    — Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Definition of tail
Noun
  • The Coliseum stayed in business for 500 years, bums in seats twice a week, watching people hack each other to death.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • Sometimes there is a fine line between being a hero or a bum, but Dave has been able to negotiate that line, because players trust him, and the players know that Dave cares about them and their families.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of bum
Noun
  • 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
  • This would create partition on the patriots’ terms, not Britain’s, as 13 contiguous colonies seceded from the rump of the British Empire in North America.
    — David Armitage, Washington Post, 26 June 2026
Definition of rump
Noun
  • Video of the conclusion of the chase was obtained by Fox11 and showed a white pickup truck speed onto a quiet residential street, smashing into objects and into the rear of a camper.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026
  • Photos also show a partial central cushion that adds extra bed space by connecting the two beds toward the rear of the van.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 July 2026
Definition of rear

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