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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At one point he noticed me looking at a trap door above our head.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025

Chris Martin emerged unharmed and thanked the crew member who caught him after he fell through a trap door during Coldplay’s Sunday concert in Melbourne.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 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

Together they crawled to the other end of the metal pipe, but there was no way for them to get at the crank that opened the trap door from the inside.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

trap door

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