Meaning of rumble seat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An extra passenger seat or row of seats in a carriage or automobile, typically folding away into a rear storage compartment.
   dated
2. A jump seat.
   colloquial

Examples

“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.”

“Vito does a lot of his own felting, dealing direct with Indians who are apt to show up here at all hours with a rumble seat full of beaver hides […].”

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