jump seat
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈdʒʌmp siːt/
:
asiento adicional
- Strapped into the jump seat behind the pilots, Chuck sleeps with a mask over his eyes.
- sit in the jump seat
- buckled into a jump seat
- folded down the jump seat
Examples
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Once, a flight attendant stuck me in the empty jump seat next to her.
Blog text (29) -
But the car seats seven, rather than five passengers, thanks to an optional small rear-facing jump seat tucked inside its cavernous hatchback.
Blog text (26) -
The men said there was a jump seat for Mother in the ambulance.
Fiction book (1990) -
Get strapped into the jump seat there.
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Go get yourself strapped into that jump seat.
Fiction book (1994) -
Meanwhile, Lowrey's holding the car door open as the kids pile into the jump seat in the back.
Fiction book (1995) -
Settled into the jump seat, Chuck finishes up his notes on his PowerBook and begins his flight ritual.
Fiction book (2000) -
Fran, Nancy, and two other attendants sit in their jump seats.
Fiction book (1996) -
Larry climbed through the back doors, sitting in the jump seat at the stretcher's head as Frank hung IV bags and replugged EKG wires that had come loose.
Fiction book (1999) -
The kids squeezed into the jump seat in the back of the minivan for the short ride to school.
Synonyms
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9.9
An extra place to sit at the back of an old car that folds and is open to the air
A small fold-out seat at the back of an old two-seat car
A small fold-out seat at the back of an old two-seat car
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
jump + seat
The sense 'a small, folding occasional seat' cannot be straightforwardly derived from 'jump' (to leap) + 'seat' (place to sit) because 'jump' does not transparently convey folding, intermittency, or auxiliary function. This is a specialized vehicle/aviation term whose specific meaning is lexicalized rather than compositional, so a B1 learner knowing the parts would probably not predict the MWE meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Jump seat may come from old carriages and early cars where a small extra seat folded out and a person often had to jump up onto it. That image of a tiny fold-up seat people use only sometimes explains why the term means 'a small, folding seat used occasionally or for extra passengers'.