rumble seat
English
Noun
rumble seat (plural rumble seats)
- (dated) An extra passenger seat or row of seats in an automobile, which typically folds away into a rear storage compartment.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, →ISBN, pages 166–167:
- 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, 1992 Bantam edition, →ISBN, pages 166–167:
- (aviation, colloquial) A jump seat.