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caboose (n.)
1747, "ship's cookhouse," from Middle Dutch
kambuis
"ship's galley," from Low German
kabhuse
"wooden cabin on ship's deck;" probably a compound whose elements correspond to English
cabin
and
house
(n.). Railroading sense is by 1859.
