The phrase "automobile trunk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the storage compartment at the rear of a car, typically used for carrying luggage or other items.
Example: "I opened the automobile trunk to retrieve my suitcase for the trip."
Alternatives: "car trunk" or "vehicle trunk".
Of the 31 operating historic theaters identified by Mr. Kennedy, 19 are community-run, little changed from the days when itinerant projectionists packed their automobile trunks with reels of film and hit the road.
The physicians wanted to keep supplying their needy patients with free samples of the expensive drugs, he said, and some doctors were found to be storing drug samples in their private offices, automobile trunks and homes.
With almost all of the nation's airport screening checkpoints fully staffed today, the lines often formed in other, less expected places: at entrances to parking lots at many airports, where National Guard units checked in automobile trunks and wheel wells, or at curbside check-in in Denver.
In this paper, a new analytical model is proposed to investigate interior noise in a passenger compartment of an automobile with a trunk.
The Martin had been in the trunk of an automobile when a semi-trailer truck struck the automobile.
He was arrested for "borrowing an automobile that had stolen jewelry in its trunk," Callan writes, and at his high school graduation he sat in the back of the auditorium, reading Mad magazine.
In the 1950s, for instance, certain models of Fiat automobiles came with a boccie set in the trunk.
Powered by a bank of automobile batteries lined up side-by-side in the trunk, hydraulics raise or lower the car -- front, back, one side or the other -- at the driver's whim.
In addition, nearly half of the demolished automobiles would have contained at least one hood or trunk light, or antilock braking system switch bearing metallic mercury (Adsit et al. 2002), each containing about 1,000 mg of metallic mercury [ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) 2005].
It is illegal in New Jersey to have an open container of alcohol in the passenger portion of a private automobile, but open bottles of alcohol may be transported in the trunk of a car, and consumption of alcohol on a bus, train, taxi, limousine, or boat is permitted.
While probably not practical in a production model, such touches as extensive teak decking in the exterior and interior, as well as the trunk, hark back to the old coach-building tradition of the automobile's pre-World War I golden age.
