attic ladder

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attic ladder (plural attic ladders)

  1. A usually retractable ladder used to access an attic through an attic door.
    Synonyms: disappearing stairs, (UK) loft ladder
    • 2016 July 14, Joel Golby, “Judging the Labour Party Leadership Candidates Based on Their Wikipedia Pictures Alone”, in Vice‎[1]:
      You make it as far as the last step on the attic ladder then pull short, the air cold in your lungs, the blood still in your heart.

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