hatchback
Americannoun
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hatchbacks
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noun
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a sloping rear end of a car having a single door that is lifted to open
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( as modifier )
a hatchback model
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a car having such a rear end
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Neither honked its horn—the baritone blasts anyone who has ever driven a hatchback can’t forget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
I lived in my red Toyota hatchback by choice, to clear my head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
It’s the type of song that probably sounds best coming out of the tinny speakers of a 1992 hatchback, and that’s frankly one of the highest compliments you can give to a grupero banger.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
And BYD's Seagull hatchback sells for less than $10,000, external.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
I sat in the back of the hatchback on the drive home—and that is how I thought of it: home—and fell asleep to the highway’s monotonous lullaby.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
In the WRC, souped-up Ford coupes and hatchbacks secured titles and won fans for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
If you’ve been to Europe recently, you’ve seen the increasingly popular Chinese-made BYD hatchbacks and SUVs, often with starting prices below $30,000.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, sales plummeted as stricter safety restrictions made them more expensive to build, while consumer tastes moved towards high-performance hatchbacks.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Why shouldn’t their town square prioritize strolling couples and amateur oil painters and kids tossing softballs over parking meters and hatchbacks?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
Volkswagen shut down assembly lines churning out its popular Golf hatchbacks and converted the factory, which has its own exit on the autobahn, to make six electric models.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
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