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- noun Plural form of
caboose .
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Examples
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Railroads also needed less workers when trains stopped using cabooses.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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Your accommodation will be one of 38 restored cabooses.
A Family Trip in Lancaster County Jennifer Merritt 2010
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Railroads also needed less workers when trains stopped using cabooses.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010
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There aren't cabooses on trains anymore, other than some private ones.
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Users can submit two pictures of their cabooses, one from straight on and the other in profile, to the Booty Reader, who appears to be the long-lost daughter of Zoltar.
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While the controversy rages on, few have thought to ask another involved party for their thoughts on the matter - the two dozen or so humans who annually volunteer their lightly-padded cabooses for the event.
The Sportsman's Daily: Two-Legged Modesto Man Disqualified from One-Legged Ass-Kicking Contest 2009
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Greenwashing is also a distraction at some level from the fundamental, core things that must change to save our collective cabooses.
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Greenwashing is also a distraction at some level from the fundamental, core things that must change to save our collective cabooses.
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I did not know until the afternoon that there were no cabooses anymore, that the train, however long, carried on without its tail, a rattlesnake without its rattle, unlike the train I had pulled as a child, serpentine, attached to a length of string along an imaginary track.
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Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier – brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats.
Bleak House 2007
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