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or less commonly backseat
1
: a seat in the back (as of an automobile)
2
: a secondary or inferior position
… the issues and concerns that have sometimes been given a back seat …—
Al Gore
see also take a back seat
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Leigh listened to the arrest unfold from the back seat of a squad car parked outside the Chili’s off Sardis Road North, less than a mile away.
—Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
Investigators found Mazi in the back seat of his mother's vehicle with his head caught in the window.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Sure enough, there’s a white plastic bowl with a lid there on the back seat floorboard.
—Laura Lane, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
He is also alleged to have distributed the drugs in his car while a young child — around six or seven years old — was in the back seat.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
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Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
Investigators found Mazi in the back seat of his mother's vehicle with his head caught in the window.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Sure enough, there’s a white plastic bowl with a lid there on the back seat floorboard.
—Laura Lane, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
He is also alleged to have distributed the drugs in his car while a young child — around six or seven years old — was in the back seat.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for back seat
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“Back seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20seat. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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