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911, n. N. Amer.
Brit. |ˌnʌɪn wʌn ˈwʌn|, U.S. |ˈnaɪn ˈwən ˈwən|
Forms: 19– 911, 19– nine-one-one
[‹ nine n. + one n. + one n. Usually written with numerical symbol.]
1. In the United States and Canada: a telephone number used to contact the emergency services; the service provided when this number is dialled. Freq. attrib. Cf. 999 n.
1968N.Y. Times 13 Jan. 62/2 A plan to establish a national emergency telephone number—911—with which police, fire and ambulance services could be summoned from any telephone in the United States was announced yesterday by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. 1973S. C. Curcie & D. E. Eisenberg in Proc. IEEE Internat. Conf. Communications 1 5 The employment of a 911 emergency telephone system is discussed and the features of such a system are described. 1989K. Green Night Angel xx. 215 The phone dangled on its spiral cord and she squirmed toward it, pushing 911. 1993Canad. Geogr. Jan.–Feb. 74/2 If you do that again I'll phone 911. 2000N. DeMille Lion's Game xxxviii. 350 He gets on his cell phone and calls Nine-One-One.
2. U.S. In extended use: a person or thing one may have recourse to in an emergency or crisis; (also) a signal to take urgent action, an alert.
1992Atlantic Sept. 34/3 An institution that has had a claim on U.S. history and imagination since 1776 may soon be lucky to be regarded as the nation's 911 force, a rescue squad for kidnapped diplomats and tourists. 1997Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 24 July a11/3 Instead of taking that as a 911 to spend more money on original writing and exceptional talent, ABC decided to pour a fortune into convincing viewers they should feel good about watching derivative junk. 2000N.Y. Times 8 Aug. a27/6 It's easy for the Bushies to sneer that they won't be the world's 911 or global cops, but such aloofness is much harder in practice now that America is so dominant. |
