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portcullis

noun

Definition of portcullis

as in trapdoor

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Recent Examples of portcullis The entrance to the car park even passes under a portcullis and guests’ bags go through an X-ray machine hidden in the rock-face. — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 The prior owner went all out on building a Medieval-style castle, with a moat, a drawbridge and a portcullis. — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022 Then Iraq’s new rulers lowered a paper portcullis, demanding fees and the completion of myriad forms. — The Economist, 10 Apr. 2021

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Noun

For instance, say a cask of ginger rolls through a trapdoor and lands on a poor laborer below.

— Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 16 Sep. 2026
Daredevils dig Screaming Hyena, a 60-foot trapdoor slide that drops from the roof!

— Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 15 July 2026

Definition of trapdoor

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The Ferus Gallery was a revolving door of experimentation at the time and helped fuse the city’s otherwise sprawling and disparate art scene.

— Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Numerous investigations have documented how patients can become trapped in a revolving door of treatment, relapse and reenrollment, with each relapse putting them at risk of overdose and death.

— Ilan Shrira, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of revolving door

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Taskin Ahmed, one of the two changes by Bangladesh following an eight-wicket defeat in the first test, and Hasan Mahmud shared the four wickets.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
In the last few months, England’s leading Test run scorer has developed a nasty habit of getting out leg before wicket.

— Ben Jones, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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