crawl space

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crawl space (plural crawl spaces)

  1. (construction) A narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building or storey used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities.
    • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 147:
      When he couldn’t take another step he hid under a lonesome gray house and squatted in the fetid water of the crawl space.

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