rearseat

noun

rearseat

noun

Etymology From rear + seat.

1

The back seat of a vehicle.

  • 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:
  • 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:
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  • 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:

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