bucket seat

noun

A form-fitting seat for one passenger in automobiles, aircraft, and other such modes of transport.

OriginFrench baquet →
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Meanings

nounbucket seat (plural bucket seats)

plural bucket seats

  1. A form-fitting seat for one passenger in automobiles, aircraft, and other such modes of transport.

Origin

  1. Frenchbaquet“cockpit”
  2. Englishbucket seat

Apparently from French baquet (“cockpit”), from early twentieth-century French aircraft.

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APA

bucket seat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucket%20seat

MLA

“bucket seat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucket%20seat. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bucket seat,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bucket%20seat.

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