rearseat

Noun

rearseat (plural rearseats)

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...
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   back seat