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death seat
noun- the front passenger seat of a car or truck US
From the probability, actual or notional, that the passenger is the least likely to survive an accident. - [Y]es, he was sitting in the death seat I think you call it in the insur, the phrase they used in the paper that is to say beside the driver. — William Gaddis, JR, p. 239, 1975
- I could tell Franny had taken the wheel when the car began to careen between the trees, great slithers of the spring mud flying–and the wild, half-seen gestures of Frank’s arms waving in what is popularly called the death seat. — John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire, p. 199, 1981
- in a trotting race, the position on the outside of the leader AUSTRALIA, 1982
Derives from the difficulty of overtaking from such a position.
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