escape hatch

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   hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency

   Broaderhatchway

   Part ofsubmarineairplane

Questions about escape hatch

What does escape hatch mean?

escape hatch means "hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency".

Is escape hatch a common word?

escape hatch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.