glove box

• glovebox

glove +‎ box

glove box (plural glove boxes)

1. (automotive) A small compartment with a door on the dashboard of a car, usually on passenger side, used to store (and sometimes lock) items.

   There's a map in the glovebox.

   • 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 25:

     So I went for the shotgun in the Hilux, but could only find one rat-shot shell in the glove box.

2. A plastic box or similar enclosure containing a controlled environment, with rubber gloves fastened around holes in the front of the box through which a person can manipulate things in the box without introducing outside contamination; an isolator.

• glove compartment