caboose
kuh boohs
- n the area for food preparation on a ship
- n a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train
- As the caboose passed, they threw rocks and stones.
- A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated.
- In the thousands they came Saturday, alone or as families, bundled against the arctic cold, jumping, waving, and screaming out as the silver train with the blue caboose whizzed by.