rumble seat

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   a folding outside seat in the back of some early cars

   Broaderseat

   Part ofroadster

Questions about rumble seat

What does rumble seat mean?

rumble seat means "a folding outside seat in the back of some early cars".

Is rumble seat a common word?

rumble seat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.