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Car on a freight train used by the men working on the train.

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Usage examples (36)
  • The caboose of the train was green and yellow.
  • In fact, a caboose is a caboose when it's a caboose.
  • COOPER: We're looking at the private car on the train, Wolf, mistakenly called a caboose earlier.
  • It looked like the caboose was attached to the engine as it wound around the track in a full circle.
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