trap door
Example Sentences
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In “Trap Door” he sings about “a trap door in your heart and a button on your desk well-worn from being pressed.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
But the trap door was what made it real for me.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025
When they stormed the building, they found a sliding trap door, disguised to look like part of the stone floor, from which metal stairs led to Fito's underground hideout.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025
The trap door then closes again by means of an elastic resetting mechanism.
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024
He was eager to work, and when I set him down through the trap door in the wire mesh of the maze, he moved swiftly along the pathways to the reward box.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
