danger zone en · NOUN
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Meanings
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A specifically hazardous place to be avoided, usually demarcated, such as an area with anti-personnel mines.
The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.
2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport:She has danced into the danger zone / When the dancer becomes the dance
1983, Michael Sembello, Dennis Matkosky, “Maniac”:
- The range of temperatures within which bacteria are likely to grow in food.
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(figuratively) The genitals.
They say I better get a chaperone / Because I can't stop messing with the danger zone
1984, Cyndi Lauper, “She Bop”, in She's So Unusual:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| danger zones | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (4)
de Gefahrenzone (hazardous place) · nb faresone (hazardous place) · nn faresone (hazardous place) · sv farozon (hazardous place)