caboose

Meaning

Noun

• A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
• A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
• The last car on a freight train, having cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
• buttocks
• The person or team in last place.
• A youngest child who is born after a long gap in time.

Origin

• From French cambuse, from Middle Dutch kabuys, kabuis (Modern Dutch kombuis).