Definitions for caboose

caboose ca·boose

Spelling: [kuh-boos]
IPA: /kəˈbus/

Caboose is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in caboose (abceoos).

Definitions for caboose

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 caboose

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 caboose

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for caboose
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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