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bench seat

bench seat noun: a seat in an automobile or other vehicle that spans the entire width of the passenger compartment.

bench seat: a seat in an automobile or other vehicle that spans the entire width of the passenger compartment
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Noun

bench seat (plural bench seats)

  1. A seat in an automobile or other vehicle that spans the entire width of the passenger compartment.
    • Many popular collector cars have gone through cycles where they were modified. These modifications often included discarding the stock bench seat in favor of aftermarket bucket seats or buckets from some later model car.1997, Bruce Caldwell, Auto Upholstery & Interiors, page 79
    Antonyms:
    bucket seat

Antonyms of bench seat

Forms of bench seat

pluralbench seats

Questions about bench seat

What does bench seat mean?
Bench seat means a seat in an automobile or other vehicle that spans the entire width of the passenger compartment.
What part of speech is bench seat?
Bench seat is a noun.
What is the plural of bench seat?
The plural of bench seat is bench seats.

Words near bench seat in the dictionary

  1. bench saws
  2. bench scientist
  3. bench scientists
  4. bench scraper
  5. bench scrapers
  6. bench seat
  7. bench seats
  8. bench show
  9. bench shows
  10. bench strength
  11. bench strengths

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