glove box

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From glove +‎ box.

Noun

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glove box (plural glove boxes)

  1. (automotive) A small compartment with a door on the dashboard of a car, usually on passenger side, used to store (and sometimes lock) items.
    There's a map in the glovebox.
    • 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 25:
      So I went for the shotgun in the Hilux, but could only find one rat-shot shell in the glove box.
  2. A plastic box or similar enclosure containing a controlled environment, with rubber gloves fastened around holes in the front of the box through which a person can manipulate things in the box without introducing outside contamination; an isolator.

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