Amber Alert

or AM·BER A·lert

[ am-beruh-lert ]

noun
    • a public alert system that uses broadcast media, text messages, and electronic billboards to spread information about missing persons, especially children.

    • a public message or announcement that uses this system.

Origin of Amber Alert

1
Backronym from America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response; named after Amber Hagerman, a girl kidnapped and murdered in Texas in 1996

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British Dictionary definitions for Amber alert

Amber alert

noun
  1. US and Canadian a notification to the general public, such as by commercial radio or electronic traffic-condition signs, regarding an abduction of a child

Origin of Amber alert

1
C20: named after Amber Hagerman, a child who was abducted and murdered in 1996 in Arlington, Texas

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