Usually means: Emergency exit during a fire.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. fire escape: Merriam-Webster
  2. fire escape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fire escape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fire escape: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fire escape: Vocabulary.com
  6. fire-escape, fire escape: Wordnik
  7. fire escape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fire escape: Wiktionary
  9. fire escape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fire escape: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Fire escape, fire escape: Dictionary.com
  12. Fire Escape (album), Fire Escape (song), Fire escape: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. fire escape: Rhymezone
  14. fire escape: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. fire-escape: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. fire escape: FreeDictionary.org
  17. fire escape: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. fire escape: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. fire escape: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fire escape: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fire escape: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fire_escapes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fire escape)

noun:  Any of the series of emergency doors, ladders, or stairs used to evacuate a building if a fire breaks out.
noun:  The entire escape route viewed as a whole.
noun:  (historical) Any apparatus designed to allow people to escape a burning building, such as a canvas tube for sliding down.

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