Dictionary

rearseat en · NOUN

Etymology

From rear + seat.

Meanings

1. The back seat of a vehicle.
   • Page 199: Robert B. Buchan, another VB-2 pilot, reported his rearseat man downed a Japanese fighter. Page 268: One was flown by Hall, who was shot through both legs, and the other by Swanson, with his dead rearseat man. 2005, John B. Lundstrom, The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway, Naval Institute Press, →ISBN:
   • Long before the van era, manufacturers designed beds into their vehicles by folding front seatbacks into rearseat cushions. 1983, David L. Lewis, “Sex and the Automobile: From Rumble Seats to Rockin' Vans”, in David L. Lewis, Laurence Goldstein, editors, The Automobile and American Culture, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 128:
   • The CrewMax sacrifices a foot of bed length for a huge cabin whose rearseat legroom would make many a limousine blush. 2007 August 11, Tom Strongman, “2007 Toyota Tundra”, in Kansas City Star:

Forms

Synonyms

back seat