hood latch

1. 1.

   a catch that holds the hood of a car shut

   Broadercatch

Questions about hood latch

What does hood latch mean?

hood latch means "a catch that holds the hood of a car shut".

Is hood latch a common word?

hood latch 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.