five-alarm

adjective

The highest priority category of a multialarm fire.

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Meanings

adjectivefive-alarm (not comparable)
  1. not comparablefirefightingThe highest priority category of a multialarm fire.
  2. broadlynot comparableHaving a high intensity or extreme heat.

    And the hundred-thirty-pound Rich LeFevre, in six hundred seconds, inhaled one and a half gallons of five-alarm chili.

    2007, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer: And Other Tales of Extreme Recreation, →ISBN, page 304
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    Instead, I only worked the Five Alarm cases—high-profile murders—and for those I exclusively partnered with Honey.

    2013, Ed Kovacs, Burnt Black: A Cliff St. James Novel, →ISBN, page 17

    As Democrats have said to me, if you say everything’s a five-alarm fire, then nothing’s a five-alarm fire, right? They’re going to be cautious about where they pick their moments.

    2024 December 7, Zachary B. Wolf, “What will be the signature achievement of Trump 2.0?”, in CNN
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APA

five-alarm. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/five-alarm

MLA

“five-alarm.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/five-alarm. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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