hotbutton
noun1
Alternative Alternative form of hot button.
- Listen for others' 'hotbuttons' and use them to your advantage.1993, Connie Brown Glaser, Barbara Steinberg Smalley, More power to you, →ISBN, page 77:
- This time he focused his message on the economic hotbuttons of the average shareholder.1994, Michael T. Jacobs, Break the Wall Street Rule, →ISBN:
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- By employing emotional hotbuttons, advertisers are trying to open you up and get inside.2001, David Walsh, Dr. Dave's Cyberhood, →ISBN:
- Who exactly is the notorious femme fatale, this fatal, evil, destructive woman with a long list of male casualties, who became the number-one linchpin of the feminist movement and one of the hotbuttons of feminist literary criticism?2005, Silke Binias, Symbol and Symptom, page 33:
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Dated An image or passage in an online screen or document that triggers an action.
- The Wide Area Information Service (WAIS, pronounced "wayz") lets you look for specific words or phrases in a file, while the Web (WWW) gives you files with hypertext hotbuttons built in.1995, Alfred Glossbrenner, Internet 101: a college student's guide, page 47:
- Roberts copied the files he mentioned onto Tom's CDR, attached a hotbutton to the footnote, which appeared as a thumbnail photo of Roberts next to the footnote, and the hotbutton to his commentary file.1995, History Microcomputer Review - Volume 11, page 29:
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- SimpleMU presents you with a dialog with hotbuttons and pull down windows for connecting and playing a game.1997, Gralla Preston, ZDNet Software Library 10,000, page 47:
- Do I have to make some kind of link to another hotbutton, or is it possible to put abilities directly into socials?2001 January 27, Richard Wingrove, “Combining two actions into one hotbutton?”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):