What is "glove compartments"

Usage examples of "glove compartments".

At night we took walks and stole cigarettes off dashboards and out of the glove compartments of parked cars.

Meanwhile, as some people tiptoed around slipping loaded pistols into their glove compartments, and as other people anxiously awaited the meeting called by Ruby Archuleta, the VISTA volunteer Herbie Gold-farb was quietly heading toward a nervous breakdown.

He spends most of the night placing these relics, leaving them in odd corners, mailboxes, glove compartments.

In the meantime he wishes for a little of the Vicks VapoRub most LAPD homicide detectives carry in their glove compartments as a matter of course.

For sheer terror there's nothing like glancing through a week's worth of burglary reports to get an idea of the arsenal on the streetsAK-41s, AR- 15s, UZIs, MAC-11s and every type of handgun imaginable, all stolen from the bedrooms, car trunks and glove compartments of regular citizens.

Everyone who has found a hitherto unknown egg-whisk jamming an innocent kitchen drawer knows that raw matter is continually flowing into the universe in fairly developed forms, popping into existence normally in ashtrays, vases and glove compartments.