Definitions

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  • noun Alternative spelling of back seat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a secondary or inferior position or status
  • noun a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile)

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Examples

  • There are four CIA personnel in this car, and squeezed in the backseat is their "hostage," a military contractor dude.

    intertribal: the a-team intertribal 2010

  • There are four CIA personnel in this car, and squeezed in the backseat is their "hostage," a military contractor dude.

    the a-team intertribal 2010

  • One of the daughter's in the backseat is wearing a Obama t-shirt. (some folks did vote for Obama in Alabama really they did) The trooper says, "Sir, you'll have to step out of the car and place your hands behind your back!"

    Will others follow Arizona's lead on immigration? 2010

  • FYI, that’s also what I call the backseat of my Datsun.

    REASON HOLLYWOOD IS STUPID #5802209…. 2008

  • She glances back with disgust at the backseat, which is cluttered and messy as a result of my time back there.

    Myra's Mind Doug Woodhouse 2010

  • We go out to the car, and on the floor of the backseat is a Häagen-Dazs cup filled with melted butter-pecan ice cream.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • Sitting in the backseat was his latest girlfriend.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • On top of all the boxes in the backseat was her J-200 sunburst Gibson.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • In the backseat were a male in his 20s with “normal hair” who wore black jeans and had worked as an architect in Saitama; an unemployed male in his 20s in a red jacket; and a 21-year-old male with longish hair, in a black jacket and blue jeans, who was employed as a shop assistant in Kanagawa.

    Let’s Die Together 2007

  • Sitting in the backseat was his latest girlfriend.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

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