front seat

English

Alternative forms

• (rare) frontseat

Noun

front seat (plural front seats)

1. (automotive) A seat in the front of the vehicle, especially the one next to the driver.

   Coordinate term: back seat

   The state police recovered a broken, jumbo (1.75-liter) bottle of vodka under the front seat of the burned-out wreckage of the minivan.

   Who gets to sit in the front seat of the car?

   • 2012 August 8, Lindsay Abrams, “Study: We Are Pathetically Failing at Safely Putting Children in Cars”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-01:

     Being that the leading cause of death in children over the age of three is motor vehicle collisions, parents should do everything possible to get their kids to buckle up and to keep smaller children from sitting in the deathtrap otherwise known as the front seat.

2. (figurative) A position of influence or priority.

Derived terms

• frontseater
• take the front seat

 

See also

• death seat
• passenger seat
• shotgun