panic button
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An emergency button which, when pressed, alerts authorities of danger or triggers an alarm system.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "To enable the panic button you’ll need to toggle the “early bird” option in the settings of the Opera GX browser."