booster seat

American

noun

a padded seat that can be placed on a chair seat, for seating a child at the proper height, as at a table or in a barber chair.

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Genre fantasy can especially empowering for the young, enabling them to relate to somebody like themselves tossed into a position of trust and power instead of relegated to the booster seat.

From Salon • May 25, 2024

Upon arriving at the scene, Musgrove opened a rear passenger door and pulled the toddler from a booster seat.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2024

Joanna Cloonan had strapped her son Aiden into his booster seat and was driving him to kindergarten on the same stretch of freeway.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

As he climbed into his booster seat, he put his birthday turtle into the cupholder of the door.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2022

Bryce has thankfully left the lamp on the stoop and appears with Aurora’s booster seat that I left lying on the ground.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

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