fire exit
Noun
Meaning
fire exit (plural fire exits)
An emergency exit for usage in case of a fire.
Antonyms
Examples
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.
Hamilton then exited the gym briefly through the fire exit, firing another four shots towards the cloakroom of the library, striking and injuring Grace Tweddle, another member of staff at the school.
He fired shots towards a window next to the fire exit at the south-east end of the gym, possibly at an adult who was walking across the playground, and then fired four more shots in the same direction after opening the fire exit door.
Such doors are also popular for use for the entrances to commercial structures, although they are not counted as fire exit doors.
She said the fire exit door and security grilles “offered almost no resistance to the short attack by youths armed with no more than a few garden implements”, who were able to enter the building “in less than one minute”.