- a variation of trapdoor.
trap door
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
Howells and his team set up a trap near the crawl space opening and the bear eventually walked into it and triggered the trap door, wildlife officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
The trap door then closes again by means of an elastic resetting mechanism.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 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
Once she’d even climbed through the trap door onto the roof, to have a look around.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
