hotline

[hot-lahyn] /ˈhɒtˌlaɪn/

noun

hot line.

adjective

Chiefly Canadian. of or pertaining to a radio program that receives telephone calls from listeners on the air.

Origin

1950-55; hot + line¹

Examples from the web for hotline

Shortly thereafter, it established a public hotline to answer veterans' inquiries about the status of their personal information.
Soon they'll have a hotline to get kids to report on their parents if the house is too warm.
Instead of the movie a box pops up directing you to a service hotline that is obviously less than helpful.
But the two sides are now talking about setting up a military hotline.
Call a suicide hotline if you have thoughts of suicide.
Each label includes a national quit smoking hotline number.
The number posted on fliers at drug treatment centers isn't for a typical hotline.
The rest of the time, he's back in the office, overseeing a crisis hotline.
If you are concerned about yourself or about somebody else, call the crisis hotline.
hotline for complaints re home health, hospice providers.

British Dictionary definitions for hotline

hotline

/ˈhɒtˌlaɪn/

noun

a direct telephone, teletype, or other communications link between heads of government, for emergency use

any such direct line kept for urgent use

Slang definitions & phrases for hotline

hot line

n phr,n

An emergency telephone line or number: Clearly, hot lines are no cure for the complex, overall problem of drug abuse/ a community ''hot line'' to head off gang wars

[mid-1950s+; popularized by the telephone line between the White House and the Kremlin]

hotline in Technology

1. Hotline Communications Ltd..
2. Hotline Connect.
(1999-12-07)