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trap door

NOUN
back door
Synonyms
STRONGEST
side door
WEAK
back entrance back stairs back way escape hatch indirect access means of entry postern postern door secret exit secretive or illicit method trapdoor wormhole

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But the trap door was what made it real for me.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025

And, as she descended a grand pearlescent staircase, she suddenly disappeared through a trap door.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2025

The trap door then closes again by means of an elastic resetting mechanism.

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

Then we heard it, the sound, and Jimmy Latham said, ‘What was that? ’; and I told him what it was—the trap door.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote