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 venue is set, rather perfectly, in a building made of shipping containers and an old caboose.
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Mackensy Lunsford,
Nashville Tennessean,
30 Dec. 2025
If a good time is picking up steam, San Diegans aren’t bashful about jumping on a Happy Train’s caboose.
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Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Nov. 2025
His moving on kind of gave me a kick in the caboose to have courage.
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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.
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Joe Rao,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Mackensy Lunsford,
Nashville Tennessean,
30 Dec. 2025
If a good time is picking up steam, San Diegans aren’t bashful about jumping on a Happy Train’s caboose.
—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caboose
Noun
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Dragonstone is the windswept ancestral seat of House Targaryen, but the Black Queen did not grow up playing among its dusky caverns.
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Lauryn enjoyed the performance from her seat, singing along and cooling herself off with an electronic fan.
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Ironically, though, her flushed and rosy cheeks were created with two shades of the Beauty Pie Supercheek Cream Blush — one of which was in her iconic color palette, while the other was actually — gasp!
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His cheeks and hands were flushed pink with blood beneath the skin.
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The life-size robotic elephants in Prasanth Prakashan's backyard workshop have ears that flap, tails that swish and trunks that squirt water.
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Some common options for hanging pots include succulents like burro's tail or string of pearls, trailing lantana, and trailing verbena.
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Designed with a plunging neckline, modest bum coverage, and compressive fabric with UPF 50 sun protection, the elegant silhouette offers rich-girl vacation energy that could easily double as a bodysuit with shorts.
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For those caught unaware, the flies will also happily lay eggs in convenient openings such as the nose, mouth, ears, eyes, and even the bum, if available.
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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.
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Other highlights include aged Scottsdale pork cutlet, blue eye trevalla, and wild clover lamb rump.
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Miller, one of the other cadets, sat on a bench on the rear of the ship one afternoon as hundreds of dolphins crested above the waves.
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As officers came close, the tow truck slammed on its brakes, causing the squad car to collide with the rear of the truck, the source said.
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“Caboose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caboose. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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