panic button

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

Noun

  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. -...
  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...

    Synonyms: boss key

Forms

panic buttons

Derived

press the panic button