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hatchback

noun
/ˈhæt͡ʃˌbæk/US

Etymology

From hatch + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as hatchback — “hatch + back”

Definitions

  1. A car with a sloping, hinged rear door that opens upwards.

    • The accident happened in Lottbridge Drove, Eastbourne, when the 26-year-old male victim was struck by a small dark hatchback.

  2. The door itself.

The neighborhood

Derived

hot hatchback, hot hatch

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hatchback. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA