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chicken switch
noun
a switch that will abort a mission; a notional switch that will end a project US, 1960- A quick-thinking sailor hit the “chicken switch” in the control room, which blew the main ballast tanks and brought the Edison to the surface. — Chicago Tribune, p. C1, 9 January 1991
- And a switch, the chicken switch. The purpose was that if anything at all went wrong, we could disconnect. — Providence (Rhode Island) Journal-Bulletin, p. 1A, 16 July 1995
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