fire alarm
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Definition(s):
- (n) a shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out
- (n) an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke
Usage(s):
- The fire alarm has gone off in councilman Antonio Villaraigosa's office in city hall, and the emergency strobe light is flashing, but he isn't budging.
- The fire alarm won't quit.
- Recurring fires in those places had become so commonplace that the ship's officers even gave up sounding the fire alarm.
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