amber alert
Noun
Meaning
amber alert (plural amber alerts)
(US, Canada) A public notification of a child abduction.
Examples
An Amber Alert was issued for the girl around 5:20 p.m. At 7:15 p.m., a driver reported seeing the Civic on the Mass Pike, and State Police arrested Rodriguez at gunpoint in Brimfield.
After the alleged abduction, police issued an Amber Alert for Mickey.
An AMBER Alert or a Child Abduction Emergency (SAME code: CAE) is a child abduction alert bulletin issued upon the suspected abduction of a child, since 1996.
The 44-year-old suspect's two daughters, Norah and Romy Carpentier, aged 11 and 6, were found dead Saturday following an Amber Alert.
An Amber Alert was issued the next day but had to be cancelled two days later when the girls’ bodies were found.
Police issued an Amber Alert for the young boy flooding the streets overnight and bombarding the media with images of Joseph, who became a passenger in an illegal and dangerous joyride.