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Amber alert

Am·ber a·lert (plural Am·ber a·lerts)


noun 
Definition:
 
alert to citizens of kidnapping: a system of bulletins issued by police to the media and sometimes on electronic highway signs, requesting vital information leading to the rapid rescue of a kidnapped child

[Early 21st century. After Amber Hagerman, a child kidnapped and murdered in Texas in 1996]
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