glove box
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See also: glovebox
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]glove box (plural glove boxes)
- (automotive) A small compartment with a door on the dashboard of a car, usually on passenger side, used to store (and sometimes lock) items.
- There's a map in the glovebox.
- 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 25:
- So I went for the shotgun in the Hilux, but could only find one rat-shot shell in the glove box.
- A plastic box or similar enclosure containing a controlled environment, with rubber gloves fastened around holes in the front of the box through which a person can manipulate things in the box without introducing outside contamination; an isolator.
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[edit]glove compartment — see glove compartment
plastic box with rubber gloves fastened around holes
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