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What is a caboose?

What is a caboose? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete, nautical) A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
  2. (US, rail transport) The last car on a freight train, having cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
  3. (slang, baby-talk or euphemistic) buttocks
  4. (slang, sports) The person or team in last place.
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This is only worth noting because the train had a caboose, which is rarely seen these days.
Workers for Skywork, a Gibson City-based firm, have started sandblasting a boxcar and a caboose on the north side of the museum grounds.
There was also an air brake gauge and emergency brake valve in the caboose.
Several Western Maryland cars were alongside along with a boxcar and caboose.
Michael and I also rode in one direction on the upper seats in the train's caboose.
All of these images are from the sides of boxcars, coal cars, miscellaneous freight cars and a caboose.

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