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caboose

[kuh-boos] / kəˈbus /
NOUN
buggy
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NOUN
galley
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The group came together at Sedalia, Mo., high school, scrounged up money and bought a caboose from a local salvage yard.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 23, 2026

The band has kicked off previous albums in New York with great fanfare, once rolling down Fifth Avenue on a flatbed truck and on another occasion riding on a caboose into Grand Central Terminal.

From Reuters Oct. 20, 2023

An old railroad caboose has been transformed into The Railway Cafe, offering coffee, light breakfast and lunch.

From Seattle Times Jul. 26, 2023

“If disability is on the caboose of the writing chain, we will be the first people to get pushed out of jobs,” he tells The Times.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2023

Then she handed me a red lantern, the kind that hangs on the back of a train's caboose.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

And now, not only do we know they risked riders’ lives for years, but the swift action to cover their cabooses cripples the region’s infrastructure.

From Washington Post Oct. 21, 2021

Somewhere on Frankfort Avenue live dinosaurs, buffalo, long-horned cattle, steam engines and cabooses.

From Washington Times Sep. 18, 2016

In the long run, though, two-man crews may become another relic of the industry, “The same way nobody still thinks we need cabooses on the back of trains,” said Grady Cothen, former administrator at the FRA.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2016

This is a guy who speaks of himself in the third person and speaks of cabooses.

From Time Nov. 10, 2011

There is a tradition in Halifax that the cabooses had to be taken off the ships, and ranged along the principal street, in order to shelter these unfortunates during the winter.

From The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration by Wallace, W. Stewart (William Stewart)




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