panic button

1. 1.

   a button to push in order to summon help in case of an emergency

   “the circuit is operated by a panic button”

   “when he saw that I was angry he hit the panic button”

   Broaderpush button

Questions about panic button

What does panic button mean?

panic button means "a button to push in order to summon help in case of an emergency".

Is panic button a common word?

panic button is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.