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panic button

panic button noun: an emergency button which, when pressed, alerts authorities of danger or triggers an alarm system.

Noun

panic button (plural panic buttons)

  1. An emergency button which, when pressed, alerts authorities of danger or triggers an alarm system.
    • Officials in India hope to combat the threat of sexual violence against women and girls by requiring panic buttons to be installed in every new phone by January, and for every phone to be equipped with GPS by 2018.2016 May 9, Katie Rogers, “India’s Answer to Sex Attacks? Panic Buttons and GPS on All Phones”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. Synonym of boss key.
    • To enable the panic button you’ll need to toggle the “early bird” option in the settings of the Opera GX browser.2023 December 14, Tom Warren, “Opera’s gamer browser now has a “panic button” for when you’re caught in the act”, in The Verge, retrieved 16 Dec 2023
    Synonyms:
    boss key

Synonyms of panic button

Forms of panic button

pluralpanic buttons

Words formed from panic button

Questions about panic button

What does panic button mean?
Panic button means an emergency button which, when pressed, alerts authorities of danger or triggers an alarm system.
What part of speech is panic button?
Panic button is a noun.
What is the plural of panic button?
The plural of panic button is panic buttons.

Words near panic button in the dictionary

  1. panic
  2. panic attack
  3. panic attacks
  4. panic bar
  5. panic bars
  6. panic button
  7. panic buttons
  8. panic buyer
  9. panic buyers
  10. panic buying
  11. panic buyings

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