hotbutton

Alternative form of hot-button.

Adjective

  1. Alternative form of hot-button.
    • In California, which has become the bellwether state on hotbutton racial issues like affirmative action and immigration, it surprises me that I wasn't aware of the Asian bloodlines among my own roommates. - 1998, A....
    • No, you have just made the fatal mistake of letting me know that you have a hotbutton issue, that is all. - 1998 December 10, Greg Cooper, “Laker Quotes”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet):
    • Their issue may be the teaching of evolution, sex education, the role of religion in the classroom, or any of a dozen hotbutton topics. - 2006, E. Joseph Schneider, Lara L. Hollenczer, The Principal's Guide to Managing...

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Noun

  1. Alternative form of hot button.
    • Listen for others' 'hotbuttons' and use them to your advantage. - 1993, Connie Brown Glaser, Barbara Steinberg Smalley, More power to you, →ISBN, page 77:
    • This time he focused his message on the economic hotbuttons of the average shareholder. - 1994, Michael T. Jacobs, Break the Wall Street Rule, →ISBN:
    • By employing emotional hotbuttons, advertisers are trying to open you up and get inside. - 2001, David Walsh, Dr. Dave's Cyberhood, →ISBN:
  2. An image or passage in an online screen or document that triggers an action.
    • The Wide Area Information Service (WAIS, pronounced "wayz") lets you look for specific words or phrases in a file, while the Web (WWW) gives you files with hypertext hotbuttons built in. - 1995, Alfred Glossbrenner,...
    • Roberts copied the files he mentioned onto Tom's CDR, attached a hotbutton to the footnote, which appeared as a thumbnail photo of Roberts next to the footnote, and the hotbutton to his commentary file. - 1995, History...
    • SimpleMU presents you with a dialog with hotbuttons and pull down windows for connecting and playing a game. - 1997, Gralla Preston, ZDNet Software Library 10,000, page 47:

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