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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
headrest
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A suitcase was on top of her headrest.
▪ His hands over his head, he was pulling the steel headrest, his breath making a low-pitched moaning sound.
▪ I cozied my head against the headrest.
▪ Instead, lean back against the headrest.
▪ It had a headrest and was studded with buttons made of bone.
▪ She pushed the headrest back up; she pulled the tassel.
Wiktionary
headrest

n. The part of a seat designed to support the head

WordNet
headrest
  1. n. a cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash [syn: head restraint]

  2. a rest for the head

Usage examples of "headrest".

January leaned forward and put his face in the cool headrest of the bombsight, hoping that its grasp might hold his thoughts as well as his forehead.

It had headrest and fingertip controls, lapboard, power swiveling so that the entire bridge was in view without effort, even a personal relief tube.

Sitting in the big, hugely padded, preferably tasteless, nondenominational chair -- something worse than a La-Z-Boy, but on that model -- with her feet up on the pop-out footrest, her head back against the leather headrest, canted to one side to look around the partially closed newspaper at him, sitting eight feet away in a blond wood school chair, the same chair he was sitting in now, she would tell him what she found amusing, tell him what she thought about the world.

The RV was Japanese, and had these three power-adjustable buckets up front, with headrests with speakers built in.

Pine looked straight ahead, down the runway, put her head back in the headrest, braced her feet on the rudder pedals, and twisted the rocket throttle control to the stop.

He scooted down in the seat, leaned back on the headrest and closed his eyes.

His head had been rocked against his headrest at an angle where the padding was of little help, dazing him.

The G suit is working, but he bent his head when he turned instead of bracing it against the headrest, and he has taken the murderous G's in his neck muscles.