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silver alert

noun

silver alert

noun

Etymology Introduced in 2005 by Oklahoma state representative Fred Perry, modelled on amber alert. Silver suggests the grey hair of elderly people; compare silver fox.

1

Canada, US A public notification of a missing person, especially a senior with dementia.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.