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caboose

noun

A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.

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The word "caboose" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the last car on a train which typically contains sleeping and cooking facilities for the crew, or for a similar car at the rear of a procession of vehicles. Example sentence: We were the last vehicle in the convoy, and got stuck behind the caboose.

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I'm going to give this award, but black people will not ride the caboose of society and we will not bring up the rear any more".

Rhetoric Rating: +2 for the double-hit Herman Cain: "The business sector is the engine of economic growth and, in order to grow the economy, we have to put more fuel in the engine, not more stuff in the caboose".

We headed upstairs, to an annex attached to the back of the paleontology hall like a caboose.

Abel uses an old train caboose, parked in his backyard in Westport, as an office.

Now it's the liberals who are touting judicial restraint, but of course there are also plenty of Court precedents that they would be happy, as Stevens wrote in another context, to see tossed "out the window of a fast-moving caboose".

I'd wave collegially to the brakemen high up in the cupola of a caboose and talk easily to the men making up trains, who in turn would pull a manifest from their pockets and point out a decent ride, an empty box or gon on the next train out.

Breyer has the record on the nine-member Court, but, as he noted during his hysterically funny 2007 appearance on NPR's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!," his 4,199 days as Court caboose was twenty-nine days less than that of Justice Joseph Story, who served as junior Justice on a seven-member Supreme Court.

"Not me," pipes up a third "I want to be a signalman & ride in the caboose.

Rhetoric Rating: +3 for use of "caboose" Newt Gingrich: "As long as we stay with Obama's bureaucratic socialism and we stay with Obama's class warfare, we're going to have a very bad economy".

Kazmann opted not to wait for the caboose.

The train's caboose morphed into a party car, as the young crowd stood on benches, drank beer from paper bags and cheered upon entering every station on the route.

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