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fire escape

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fire escape (plural fire escapes)

  1. Any of the series of emergency doors, ladders, or stairs used to evacuate a building if a fire breaks out.
    • 1975, Private Eye, numbers 340–366, page 198:
      Eight ladies with Ugandan associations had ascended the fire escape and were making their way through his room.
  2. The entire escape route viewed as a whole.
  3. (historical) Any apparatus designed to allow people to escape a burning building, such as a canvas tube for sliding down.

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