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Also known as dickey, dicky, diggy, compartment, boot

main storage space of an automobile

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Named after
trunk
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Automobile trunks
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trunk
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Encyclopedic overview

The open trunk in the rear of a Porsche Boxster Early automobiles had provision for mounting an external trunk as on a 1931 Ford Model A, in addition to the rumble seat.

The trunk (American English) or boot (British English) of a car is the vehicle's main storage or cargo compartment, often a hatch at the rear of the vehicle. It can also be called a tailgate.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “trunk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.