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tip-up seat

tip-up seat noun: a seat with a seat pan or saddle which tips up to save space, as for a gangway, typically used in sports and entertainment venues and in mass transport.

Noun

tip-up seat (plural tip-up seats)

  1. A seat with a seat pan or saddle which tips up to save space, as for a gangway, typically used in sports and entertainment venues and in mass transport.
    • We need some tip-up seats for this football ground.
    • This waiting room is very small: we should have tip-up seats instead.

Forms of tip-up seat

pluraltip-up seats

Questions about tip-up seat

What does tip-up seat mean?
Tip-up seat means a seat with a seat pan or saddle which tips up to save space, as for a gangway, typically used in sports and entertainment venues and in mass transport.
What part of speech is tip-up seat?
Tip-up seat is a noun.
What is the plural of tip-up seat?
The plural of tip-up seat is tip-up seats.

Words near tip-up seat in the dictionary

  1. tip-toes
  2. tip-top
  3. tip-topper
  4. tip-tops
  5. tip-up
  6. tip-up seat
  7. tip-ups
  8. tipa
  9. Tipacan
  10. Tipai
  11. tipari

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