hidden compartment
Concealed storage area
A hidden compartment is a concealed storage space built into a larger structure—a vehicle, piece of furniture, or building.
The compartment is designed to escape casual notice: Customs agents found cocaine in a hidden compartment behind the dashboard.
Hidden compartments serve purposes ranging from protecting valuables to smuggling contraband.
- secretConcealed information
- secret passageConcealed route through structure
- stashHidden reserve
- concealedMade invisible deliberately
- false wallFake barrier hiding space
trapdoor · false bottom · cache · smuggling · hollowed · hollowed out · spy · panel · drawer · safe · contraband · hideaway · panic room · floorboard · suitcase · lining · bookcase · priest hole
- hiding placeshideout, bolthole, cubbyhole, den, hidey-hole
- hidden thingssecrets, motives, agendas, subtext, undercurrents
- mystery itemsmystery box, sealed envelope, coded message, treasure map, puzzle box
- mystery objectscrystal ball, magic mirror, ancient scroll, glowing orb, sealed letter
- smugglingcontraband, smugglers, human smuggling, smuggling rings, people smuggling
- hidden assetssecret stash, buried treasure, nest egg, stash, cache
hidden compartmentopen shelf
Unenclosed horizontal storage surface
display case · glass cabinet · pegboard · showcase · display shelf
hidden compartmentdisplay shelf
Surface for exhibiting items
display window · exhibition space · showroom · trophy case · storefront display
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