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What is the noun for caboose?

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caboose
  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.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The Christmas train consisted of modern passenger carriages, generator cars and a caboose, with a diesel switch engine on either end.”
      “He rolled and then tried to get loose but slipped and fell on his caboose.”
      “Several Western Maryland cars were alongside along with a boxcar and caboose.”
cabooses
  1. plural of caboose
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Pooled cabooses stayed with a train to final destination and the crew slept in a bunkhouse like the engine crews had always done.”
      “Steam locomotives gave way to diesels, and cabooses were replaced by little boxes.”
      “Several train cabooses have been moved to the resort, set on rail tracks and equipped with bathrooms, heat, and beds.”
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