escape hatch

Other forms: escape hatches

Definitions of escape hatch
  1. noun
    hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency
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    type of:
    hatchway, opening, scuttle
    an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
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