five-alarm

English

Adjective

five-alarm (not comparable)

  1. (firefighting) The highest priority category of a multialarm fire.
    Hypernym: multialarm
  2. Having a high intensity or extreme heat.
    • 2013, Ed Kovacs, Burnt Black: A Cliff St. James Novel‎[1], →ISBN, page 17:
      Instead, I only worked the Five Alarm cases—high-profile murders—and for those I exclusively partnered with Honey.
    • 2007, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer: And Other Tales of Extreme Recreation‎[2], →ISBN, page 304:
      And the hundred-thirty-pound Rich LeFevre, in six hundred seconds, inhaled one and a half gallons of five-alarm chili.
    • 2024 December 7, Zachary B. Wolf, “What will be the signature achievement of Trump 2.0?”, in CNN‎[3]:
      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.
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