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escape hatches

escape hatches is the plural of escape hatch.

Meaning of escape hatch

Noun

escape hatch (plural escape hatches)

  1. An emergency exit in a vehicle, aircraft, ship, or similar structure.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) A preplanned or readily available means of avoiding a difficult, unpleasant, or undesirable situation.
    • What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

Questions about escape hatches

What is escape hatches the plural of?
Escape hatches is the plural of escape hatch.

Words near escape hatches in the dictionary

  1. escape fire
  2. escape fires
  3. escape goat
  4. escape goats
  5. escape hatch
  6. escape hatches
  7. escape key
  8. escape keys
  9. escape literature
  10. escape pod
  11. escape pods

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