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caboose

/kuh-boos/US // kəˈbus //UK // (kəˈbuːs) //

守车,车厢,驾驶室,守车人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a car on a freight train, used chiefly as the crew's quarters and usually attached to the rear of the train.
    • : British. a kitchen on the deck of a ship; galley.
    • : Slang. the buttocks.

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Examples

  • Soon enough, Gossip Girl star Blake Lively had joined his mini-caboose.

  • The door was on the car when I came out to meet you, and now it's gone, and there's been no body near the caboose but your men.

  • Of the brown man who was found hiding in the coat closet of the caboose nothing was said.

  • Our caboose being gone, and as we had no stove below, we were unable to light a fire to cook anything.

  • After constant coaxing, they succeeded in gaining unwilling permission to climb up to the engineer's caboose and watch Jim work.

  • Dot saw the cables with the grappling hooks swing over her head and dodged down inside the caboose.