rumble seat

English

Noun

rumble seat (plural rumble seats)

1. (dated) An extra passenger seat or row of seats in a carriage or automobile, which typically folds away into a rear storage compartment.

   Synonym: rumble-tumble

   • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →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.

2. (aviation, colloquial) A jump seat.

Anagrams

• musterable