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cabeese

cabeese is the plural of caboose.

Meaning of caboose

Noun

caboose (plural cabooses or (nonstandard, humorous) cabeese or (nonstandard, humorous) caboosen)

  1. (obsolete) A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
  2. (historical) A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
    • On the second day out, while sailing moderately on our course in the Gulf Stream, a sudden squall of wind struck the ship from the SW. and knocked her completely on her beam-ends, stove one of our boats, entirely destroyed two others, and threw down the cambouse.1821, Owen Chase, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex …
  3. (US) The last car on a freight train, consisting of cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
    Synonyms:
    guard's van
  4. (childish, euphemistic, slang) The buttocks.
    • That's a pretty big caboose for a baby.2001 March 11, John Frink and Don Payne, Bye, Bye, Nerdie (The Simpsons), spoken by Homer Simpson
  5. (slang) The person or team in last place.
  6. (in-compounds, informal, often) A youngest child who is born after a long gap in time.
    • Jimmy was seven and had just finished first grade, so that made Nancy our caboose baby — our bonus child — our swan song.1987, Harriet Wallace Rose, Something's Wrong with My Child!

Origin of cabeese

Compare goose and its plural geese.

Words that rhyme with cabeese

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Questions about cabeese

What is cabeese the plural of?
Cabeese is the plural of caboose.

Words near cabeese in the dictionary

  1. cabdriver
  2. cabdrivers
  3. cabdriving
  4. Cabe
  5. cabecitabine
  6. cabeese
  7. Cabeiri
  8. cabeliau
  9. Cabell
  10. Cabell County
  11. Cabellian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cabeese (page history and authors); caboose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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