caboose

caboose
/keuh boohs"/, n.
1. a car on a freight train, used chiefly as the crew's quarters and usually attached to the rear of the train.
2. Brit. a kitchen on the deck of a ship; galley.
3. Slang. the buttocks.
[1740-50; < early modern D cabuse (D kabuis) ship's galley, storeroom; cf. LG kabuus, kabüse, MLG kabuse booth, shed; further orig. uncert.]

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