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Related topics: Trains & railwaysca·boose /kəˈbuːs/ noun [countable] American EnglishTTT a small railway carriage at the back of a train, usually where the person in charge of it travels 守车〔在列车末尾供列车长使用的车厢〕 SYN British English guard’s vanExamples from the Corpuscaboose• And not a liberalism that merely acquiesces as it looks to personal advancement, the Clinton caboose.• Trailing that problem like a rattling caboose was the need to tell Spider he was quitting.• The runner was nothing more than the caboose.Origin caboose (1700-1800) Dutch cabuis, from Middle Low German kabuseca·boose nounChineseSyllable railway the a carriage Corpus at small |