Crossword clues for burglar alarm
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burglar \Bur"glar\, n. [OE. burg town, F. bourg, fr. LL. burgus (of German origin) + OF. lere thief, fr. L. latro. See Borough, and Larceny.] (Law) One guilty of the crime of burglary.
Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a warning device that is tripped off by the occurrence of a burglary 2 a loud warning signal produced by a burglar alarm
WordNet
n. a loud warning signal produced by a burglar alarm; "they could hear the burglar alarm a mile away"
a warning device that is tripped off by the occurrence of a burglary
Usage examples of "burglar alarm".
No one at street level could see me while I worked on the lock, and I couldn't believe there would be a burglar alarm on the door.
A shrewdly concealed burglar alarm went off and some ten minutes later police bullets hit Gerald in the spine and then a slug smashed through his brain and that was the end of him.
There are many ways to bypass or otherwise defeat a burglar alarm.
Open the front door of the store for them-they seemed to know that when I did that it would automatically turn off the burglar alarm-and then open the vault.
Moreover, they were arranged with a burglar alarm that would arouse Jenks the moment that anyone attempted to enter the house.
At that instant the burglar alarm went off, and it was the loudest sound Tracy had ever heard.
As she ran around to the front door, she wondered why the burglar alarm siren wasn’.
Instantly the raucous clang of the burglar alarm resounded noisily, raising brassy echoes from every part of the property.
As I changed to another channel, I was shocked by my burglar alarm.
Lights dancing across the keypad by the door meant the burglar alarm had gone off, or perhaps an electrical surge had screwed that up, too.
This was highly unusual, and I feared he would tell me that my burglar alarm had been going half the night or yet one more oddball had tried to drive through to see if I was at home.
So it's not like someone didn't have easy access to a spare key to my house, and you guys had my burglar alarm code, right?
No sign of forcible entry, and the joint's got a triple A burglar alarm.
Next thing you know, she's let the squirrel in and reset the burglar alarm behind him.
If the residents want to go out, they simply turn on the burglar alarm prior to leaving by the front entrance or the door to the garage.