as in seat
the part of the body upon which someone sits
I couldn't even make it down the bunny slope without ending up on my caboose
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Recent Examples of caboose
The tactic certainly caught the attention of one of the railcar's occupants: Spencer, who spots his wife screaming for help next to the tracks and leaps from its caboose to rescue her without a second thought.
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EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
The train doesn't stop, but the hunter hauls hide through its cars, ultimately jumping off its caboose and into Alex's arms.
—Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Take a culinary road trip with the chef who opened a luncheonette in a historic train caboose on the Pacific Coast Highway.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
His moving on kind of gave me a kick in the caboose to have courage.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
The train doesn't stop, but the hunter hauls hide through its cars, ultimately jumping off its caboose and into Alex's arms.
—Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Take a culinary road trip with the chef who opened a luncheonette in a historic train caboose on the Pacific Coast Highway.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
His moving on kind of gave me a kick in the caboose to have courage.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caboose
Noun
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The front seat offers supportive and comfortable Nappa leather sport seats.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
31 July 2025
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Ohio and Missouri, which could render four more Republican seats, combined, are also looking at redistricting.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
Noun
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An older woman, a friend of my mother’s (my mother was also a teacher at the school), walked over and pinched my cheeks, first one and then the other, as an adult might do to an infant.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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Ironically, her swollen face looks plump and round despite her partial buccal fat removal — a procedure that extracts the soft pads of tissue found inside the cheeks to create a slimmer face.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In front of this, a huge sculpture of a whale’s tail is another reminder of the ocean life outside the walls—where guests can set sail for day trips, surrounded by giddy dolphins, and where the edge of Morocco can be seen on a clear day.—
Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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Nick Moskovitz of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, told the AP that these meteors tend to move slower, which could result in tails that appear to linger in the sky for a bit longer.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 July 2025
Noun
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This was all done with a bum wrist, which posed as an inconvenience to him at times.—
Hannah Kirby,
Journal Sentinel,
4 Aug. 2024
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Tommy, left to prosecute the case against Rusty, has inherited a bum gig.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
26 July 2024
Noun
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The deal comes as investor interest in AI code writing startups is running at fever pitch after Google spoiled OpenAI’s takeover of Windsurf by poaching key execs in a $2.4 billion deal announced this week, with the rump of the company bought by rival Cognition.—
Iain Martin,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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According to Interior Wildlife, the porcupine's rump was the only spot rescuers could reach through the plane's small window opening.—
Moná Thomas,
People.com,
5 June 2025
Noun
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By contrast, in the Belmont, jockey Junior Alvarado adroitly kept Sovereignty closer to the pace, up in the mix, no time to lay back and do that Sovereignty thing of melting into the rear.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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The grip includes a command dial, with another at the rear just above the thumb rest, that work together for exposure control.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
25 July 2025
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“Caboose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caboose. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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