Definitions
A gap, ambiguity, or technical exception that lets someone avoid a rule or requirement.
Word origin
From Middle English loupe (“opening in a wall”) + hole, from a Germanic source. By surface analysis, loop + hole. Compare Medieval Latin loupa, lobia and Middle Dutch lupen (“to watch”).
Used in a sentence
“[…] and having a fair loophole, as it were, from a broken hole in the tree, he took a sure aim, without being seen, waiting till they were within about thirty yards of the tree, so that he could not miss.”
“There was a loophole in this wall, to let the light in, just at the height of a person's head, who was sitting near the chimney.”
“The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Legal escape hatch”8 letters
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