Meaning of glove box | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small compartment with a door on the dashboard of a car, usually on passenger side, used to store (and sometimes lock) items.
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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Examples

“There's a map in the glovebox.”

“So I went for the shotgun in the Hilux, but could only find one rat-shot shell in the glove box.”

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