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☆ hot line

  1. a means of direct communication for use in emergency or crisis; specif., a direct telephone line between government leaders
  2. a telephone line to a social service agency, as a suicide prevention center

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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