caboose

English

Wikipedia

Historic caboose on display in O'Fallon, Illinois

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəˈbuːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

caboose (plural cabooses)

1. (obsolete, nautical) A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
2. (US, rail transport) The last car on a freight train, having cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
3. (slang, baby-talk or euphemistic) buttocks

Synonyms

• (last car on train): guards van (obsolete)

Translations

nautical: small galley

• Finnish: kapyysi (fi)

• Russian: камбуз (ru) (kámbuz) m

last car on a train

• Finnish: jarruvaunu (fi)
• German: Bremserhäuschen (de) n
• Russian: задний тормозной вагон (ru) (zádnij tormoznój vagón) m, тормозной вагон сзади (ru) (tormoznój vagón szádi) m

• Spanish: furgón de cola (es) m, vagón de cola (es) m

buttocks

• Dutch: achterste (nl) n, (Belgium) poep (nl) m
• Finnish: peppu (fi)

• Russian: задница (ru) (zádnitsa) f
• Spanish: pompis (es) m, pompi (es) m, (Chile) poto (es) m, colita (es) f