Definitions for cabooses

cabooses ca·boose

Spelling: [kuh-boos]
IPA: /kəˈbus/

Cabooses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in cabooses (abceooss).

Definitions for cabooses

noun

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

Origin of cabooses

1740-50; early modern Dutch cabūse (Dutch kabuis) ship's galley, storeroom; compare Low German kabuus, kabüse, Middle Low German kabuse booth, shed; further origin uncertain

Examples for cabooses

You 'tack me and I'll have you in the caboose, sure's my name's Gedney Raffer.

The locomotive whistled, and the brakeman ran back to the caboose.

The caboose was gone, and so was everything on deck not thoroughly secured.

The man addressed as “Jack” sprang alertly to the roof of the caboose.

Just then Willie Wallace came through the caboose, and the train stopped.

He was not on top of any of the cars, nor in the caboose, and must have been left behind.

The conductor and crew of the local freight were lounging comfortably in the caboose.

Mears, greatly disturbed, ordered the men off the grade and into the caboose.

Forward is the caboose of the crew, a wide, low, but roomy erection.

It did not occur to Bucks that the caboose was standing still.

Word Value for cabooses
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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