panic buttonn.

Brit.

/ˈpanɪk ˌbʌtn/, U.S.

/ˈpænɪk ˌbətn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: panic n.², button n.

Etymology: < panic n.² + button n.The origin of the expression is discussed in Amer. Speech 31 (1956) 240.

Originally U.S.A.F. slang.

A button or switch for operating a device in an emergency, or for raising an alarm. Frequently figurative, esp. in to hit (also press, push, etc.) the panic button: to become alarmed, to panic; to take emergency measures.

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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > panic > panic button

panic button1948

the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (intransitive)] > panic or lose one's head > hit the panic button

to hit (also press, push, etc.) the panic button1948

1948 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 110/1 The student [pilot] there picks up a whole new jargon…If he gets in a tight spot and doesn’t know what to do, he ‘pushes the panic button for two minutes of disorganized confusion’.

1951 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 May 44/1 The Communists were approaching the city... Someone remembered the ‘panic button’ in an airplane that is pressed when time comes to abandon ship. Signs reading ‘panic button’ were shortly found on light switches throughout Seoul.

1955 Amer. Speech 30 117 Hit the panic button,..panic, get excited... (There is a switch called the ‘panic button’ in the cockpit of a jet aircraft which jettisons objects..in order to lighten the plane. Conditions under which this switch is used are usually quite desperate.)

1959 E. Sevareid Candidates 1960 ii. viii. 264 He was a preventive-war man who would push the panic button on the thinnest pretext.

1962 Rev. & Herald 25 Oct. 24/3 Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in America, warned here that the time is coming for world Christian missions ‘to press the panic button’, because Christianity is dying out.

1973 Listener 15 Feb. 200/3 The panic-button was pressed: foreign-exchange markets slammed their doors.

1996 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 3/4 Install spyholes,..video-entryphones, panic buttons and security mirrors, and buy a dog.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	panic button
释义	panic buttonn. Brit. /ˈpanɪk ˌbʌtn/, U.S. /ˈpænɪk ˌbətn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: panic n.², button n. Etymology: < panic n.² + button n.The origin of the expression is discussed in Amer. Speech 31 (1956) 240. Originally U.S.A.F. slang. A button or switch for operating a device in an emergency, or for raising an alarm. Frequently figurative, esp. in to hit (also press, push, etc.) the panic button: to become alarmed, to panic; to take emergency measures. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > panic > panic button panic button1948 the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (intransitive)] > panic or lose one's head > hit the panic button to hit (also press, push, etc.) the panic button1948 1948 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 110/1 The student [pilot] there picks up a whole new jargon…If he gets in a tight spot and doesn’t know what to do, he ‘pushes the panic button for two minutes of disorganized confusion’. 1951 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 May 44/1 The Communists were approaching the city... Someone remembered the ‘panic button’ in an airplane that is pressed when time comes to abandon ship. Signs reading ‘panic button’ were shortly found on light switches throughout Seoul. 1955 Amer. Speech 30 117 Hit the panic button,..panic, get excited... (There is a switch called the ‘panic button’ in the cockpit of a jet aircraft which jettisons objects..in order to lighten the plane. Conditions under which this switch is used are usually quite desperate.) 1959 E. Sevareid Candidates 1960 ii. viii. 264 He was a preventive-war man who would push the panic button on the thinnest pretext. 1962 Rev. & Herald 25 Oct. 24/3 Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in America, warned here that the time is coming for world Christian missions ‘to press the panic button’, because Christianity is dying out. 1973 Listener 15 Feb. 200/3 The panic-button was pressed: foreign-exchange markets slammed their doors. 1996 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 3/4 Install spyholes,..video-entryphones, panic buttons and security mirrors, and buy a dog. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1948
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