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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hatchback
noun
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▪ And if everyone else is rebelling in a similar fashion, we might get some decent hot hatchbacks back into circulation.
▪ Baya jumped in his rented red Fiat Punto, a utilitarian hatchback, and raced toward Cap Martin.
▪ He opened the hatchback of his car and carefully lifted out parts of his dance costume to show me.
▪ It is a five-door hatchback of Escort size, with engines ranging from 1.4 to 1.9 litres and four variations of styling.
▪ Open the hatchback and the boot space is small, in the interests of extra knee-room for rear passengers.
▪ The blue hatchback was briefly searched in the parking lot, and then towed away by authorities.
▪ There are two versions of the three-door hatchback, both with a normally aspirated engine and manual five speed gearbox.
▪ Unlike some hatchbacks one could mention, this seems to be solidly built with a first-class chassis.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hatchback

type of rear door of an automobile, 1970, from hatch (n.) + back (n.).

Wiktionary
hatchback

n. 1 A car with a sloping, hinged rear door that opens upwards. 2 The door itself.

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WordNet
hatchback

  1. n. a car having a hatchback door

  2. a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open

Wikipedia
Hatchback

A hatchback is a car body configuration with a rear door that swings upward to provide access to a cargo area. Hatchbacks may feature fold-down second row seating, where the interior can be flexibly reconfigured to prioritize passenger vs. cargo volume. Hatchbacks may feature two- or three-box design.

While early examples of the body configuration can be traced to the 1930s, the Merriam-Webster dictionary dates the term itself to 1970. The hatchback body style has been marketed worldwide on cars ranging in size from superminis to small family cars, as well as executive cars and some sports cars.

Usage examples of "hatchback".

The only cars that came and went were the hire cars, bright little hatchbacks rented by the tourists who leased for a couple of weeks the few villas that were available to let for the summer.

On hearing his name, Franklin lifted his troubled, regal head from the recesses of the hatchback, and I saw the black-and-white markings of an English setter.

On coming home with the carrier bags in the boot of the hatchback they cram their elephant-coffin-sized freezers with ready meals to be defused later in the microwave.

Instead of going to the fridge and pulling out a frozen dinner, the Writer stalked out the front door of the mobile home and got into his battered old Toyota hatchback.