- a variation of trapdoor.
trap door
Britishnoun
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a door or flap flush with and covering an opening, esp in a ceiling
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the opening so covered
Example Sentences
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At one point he noticed me looking at a trap door above our head.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
The air flows through a pipe module situated behind the "trap door," generating an acoustic signal.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
Or maybe it was just distraction by a record-breaking crowd that led Chris Martin to take a tumble through a trap door at Coldplay’s Sunday concert in Melbourne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
It seems that Olivia Rodrigo took too many steps forward and not enough steps back before she fell through a trap door during a recent concert down under.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
He was eager to work, and when I set him down through the trap door in the wire mesh of the maze, he moved swiftly along the pathways to the reward box.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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