hotline
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- noun
- /ˈhɑːtlaɪn/
- Mr. Bacalao lets me handle the Neighborhood Protest Hotline, and I get to play detective to suspect offenders.
- call the hotline
- toll-free hotline
- information hotline
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- I've got your number, the, the hotline number stored in my phone.
- But The thing is, ICE already had a hotline that does this.
- And in that way you have a direct hotline.
- Just Google IRS Contact and it'll pull up their IRS general Hotline number.
- Imagine like a therapist or even higher stake, like a suicide hotline operated by a large language model.
- And my uncle, that's why my uncle ultimately put a hotline in directly to Khrushchev.
- And so they're saying call the hotline for like toxic dog stuff.
- Well, you have to call the IRS hotline to have them add this banking information.
- Then call Donald Trump's perfect Phone call hotline.
Examples
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Fewer than ten calls came in via the hotline in 1998.
Academic text (2000) -
Authorities have even set up hotlines for people to report such events.
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Call the hotline, leave us a message.
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Thank you for calling the Animal Control hotline.
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About twenty years ago, I worked at a crisis hotline in Southern California.
Academic text (1999) -
The counselor on the hotline had asked her if she was thinking of killing herself.
Fiction book (1997) -
Anyone with information regarding this homicide is urged to call the police hotline at 771-9400.
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The campaign elements in this trial consisted of financial incentives, an ROPS hotline, and a series of tested promotional messages.
Academic text (2011) -
This is after they've cut the veteran suicide hotline, after they've made all these cuts to benefits.
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If you need immediate assistance, please call the hotline for support.
Synonyms
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A direct phone line for urgent help or advice
A phone line customers call for help with products or services
How Direct
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hotline is a simple combination of hot and line. Hot here means 'urgent' or 'active' and line means 'telephone line', so a hotline is a direct phone you call when you need fast help or immediate information.