caboose

English

Historic caboose on display in O'Fallon, Illinois

Alternative forms

camboose.

Etymology

From French cambuse, from Middle Dutch kabuys, kabuis (Modern Dutch kombuis (“galley; kitchen”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kəˈbuːs/
Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

caboose (plural cabooses)

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

Synonyms

(last car on train): guard's van (obsolete)

Translations

nautical: small galley

Finnish: kapyysi (fi)
German: Kombüse (de) f

Russian: ка́мбуз (ru) m (kámbuz)

last car on a train

Finnish: jarruvaunu
Russian: за́дний тормозно́й ваго́н m (zádnij tormoznój vagón), тормозно́й ваго́н сза́ди m (tormoznój vagón szádi)

Spanish: furgón de cola m, vagón de cola m

babytalk: buttocks

Dutch: achterste (nl) n, (Belgium) poep (nl) m
Finnish: peppu (fi)
German:
Deutsch: Hintern (de) m

Russian: за́дница (ru) f (zádnica)
Spanish: pompis (es) m, pompi (es) m, (Chile) poto (es) m, colita (es) f

sports: person or team in the last place

Finnish: peränpitäjä, hännänhuippu (fi)

Russian: аутса́йдер (ru) m (autsájder)

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