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escape hatch

n. hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency

Usage examples of "escape hatch".

Soon enough this tunnel would come to someone's attention, even if they didn't find the escape hatch from that .

Soon enough this tunnel would come to someone's attention, even if they didn't find the escape hatch from that.

Soon enough this tunnel would come to someone's attention, even if they didn't find the escape hatch from that place.

You can see he's been cut on the forehead - possibly banged his head on the escape hatch on the way out.

The years since and the horrors he had seen gave him a wisdom of sorts, an instinct for trouble and the escape hatch.

This was Rosenberg's personal escape hatch, his way of retreating from the dull horrors of their life on Titan.

Among other things, it had permitted her to cut an emergency escape hatch from her bedroom to an old sewer tunnel which connected with the Karlovac storm drains she and the Movement had used so often and to such good effect.