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rumble seats

rumble seats is the plural of rumble seat.

Meaning of rumble seat

Noun

rumble seat (plural rumble seats)

  1. (dated) An extra passenger seat or row of seats in a carriage or automobile, typically folding away into a rear storage compartment.
    • I suspected I wouldn't care an awful lot for his companionship, so I put him and another one in the rumble seat, and with the other two in with me I found the trail back to the Parkway and turned south.1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, pages 166–167
    Synonyms:
    rumble-tumble
  2. (colloquial) A jump seat.

Questions about rumble seats

What is rumble seats the plural of?
Rumble seats is the plural of rumble seat.

Words near rumble seats in the dictionary

  1. rumberries
  2. rumberry
  3. rumble
  4. rumble on
  5. rumble seat
  6. rumble seats
  7. rumble strip
  8. rumble strips
  9. rumble-bumble
  10. rumble-tumble
  11. rumble-tumbles

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