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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
panic button
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But when Tonia is due to jet in he hits the panic button and blitzes the housework.
▪ Derby County chairman Brian Fearn has refused to push the panic button after Tranmere's 2-1 win.
▪ She managed to push a silent panic button linked to the police station while doing so.
▪ Through the watery mist she focused on the red panic button that stood out upon the wall behind the door.
▪ Thursday inside the Olympic Dome, Rudy not have hit the panic button, but his voice clearly was raised.
Wiktionary
panic button

n. An emergency button which, when pressed, alerts authorities of danger or triggers an alarm system.

WordNet
panic button

n. a button to push in order to summon help in case of an emergency; "the circuit is operated by a panic button"; "when he saw that I was angry he hit the panic button"

Wikipedia
Panic button

A panic alarm is an electronic device designed to assist in alerting somebody in emergency situations where a threat to persons or property exists.

A panic alarm is frequently but not always controlled by a concealed panic alarm button. These buttons can be connected to a monitoring center or locally via a silent alarm or an audible bell/siren. The alarm can be used to request emergency assistance from local security, police or emergency services. Some systems can also activate closed-circuit television to record or assess the event.

Many panic alarm buttons lock on when pressed, and require a key to reset them.

Panic button (disambiguation)

A panic button is an electronic device designed to assist in alerting somebody (usually the Emergency Services) in emergency situations.

Panic Button may also refer to:

  • Panic Button (1964 film), a comedy starring Jayne Mansfield
  • Panic Button, a 2007 TV film starring Holly Marie Combs, originally released as Point of Entry (2007 film)
  • Panic Button (2011 film), a British horror thriller
  • Panic Button Records, an American record label
  • Panic Button, a game show on TruTV
Panic Button (2011 film)

Panic Button is a British independent film released in 2011. Although the film is a horror thriller, the subject matter is intended as a cautionary tale on the dangers of online social networking.

Panic Button (1964 film)

Panic Button is 1964 low-budget Italian-produced comedy film starring, Maurice Chevalier, Eleanor Parker, Jayne Mansfield, and Mike Connors. Filmed in the summer of 1962, in Italy, and released nearly two years later, the film tells the story of how two unknown actors (Chevalier and Mansfield) are chosen to be in a big-budgeted film version of Romeo and Juliet. The film was known for being one of the many foreign movies Mansfield was forced to make since her contract was dropped from 20th Century Fox in 1962.

Usage examples of "panic button".

Third thing - if the lights in Ward A fail at any time, whoever is in charge is to press the panic button immediately.

He'd already punched the base panic button, and his trained people were moving out smartly.

When the changeover occurred, the target usually disappeared off the radar screen for about twelve seconds until the new code was picked up by the radar computers--if the controllers weren't ready for the changeover, they got very frantic and sometimes pushed the panic button.

Set the panic button on 'dead-man' setting-and for God's sake keep your thumb on it.

Jake wanted the United States as far from land as possible in case Qazi pushed the panic button.