frontseat

English

Noun

frontseat (plural frontseats)

1. Rare form of front seat.
   • 1997, Tim Powers, Earthquake Weather, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, published 2018, →ISBN, page 303:

     They were sitting in the frontseat of Mavranos' truck, barreling along at a steady seventy miles per hour north on the 101 out past Oxnard, with the surf a rippling line far away in the darkness on their left.

   • 2008, Seth Harwood, Jack Wakes Up: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 156–157:

     Gradually, the sound of the van comes through his ears and he starts to hear the rudimentary elements of life: the rumble of the van, the sound of wind blowing in through the windows, the sound of people talking—Vlade on his cell phone and the two guys in the frontseats arguing—and the occasional car that has a huge bass system banging outside on the streets.

   • 2016, Christopher Tabbert, Ghosts of Birch Lake, Wheeling, I.L.: Bristol & Lynden, →ISBN, page 81:

     The frontseat windows was still down, so I went ahead and rolled 'em up and waited to see what was gonna happen next.