Meanings
plural rearseats
- The back seat of a vehicle.
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 Star2 more examples
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 128Page 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, →ISBNSynonyms: back seat
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe back seat of a vehicle.
Origin
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