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crawlspace

crawlspace is the alternative form of crawl space.

Meaning of crawl space

Noun

crawl space (plural crawl spaces)

  1. A level, narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building or storey used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities.
    • When he couldn’t take another step he hid under a lonesome gray house and squatted in the fetid water of the crawl space.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 147
    1. A severely height-limited basement or semi-basement of a building, of less than half a storey high.

Forms of crawlspace

pluralcrawlspaces

Questions about crawlspace

What is crawlspace the alternative form of?
Crawlspace is the alternative form of crawl space.

Words near crawlspace in the dictionary

  1. crawls
  2. crawls before one walks
  3. crawls up someone's ass
  4. crawls with
  5. crawlsome
  6. crawlspace
  7. crawlspaces
  8. crawlway
  9. crawlways
  10. crawly
  11. Crawney

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crawlspace (page history and authors); crawl space (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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