fire alarm Meaning of "fire alarm"

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Definition(s):

  1. (n) a shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out
  2. (n) an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke

Usage(s):

  1. 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.
  2. The fire alarm won't quit.
  3. 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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