buzz in
verbDefinitions
To open a remote-controlled door to allow (a person) to enter after sounding the doorbell…
To open a remote-controlled door to allow (a person) to enter after sounding the doorbell or buzzer.
- I'm going to buy some more coffee. Could you buzz me in when I get back?
On a game show or similar competition, to press the buzzer to provide an answer.
- It was the first contest to employ a "lock-out device": whichever contestant buzzed in first automatically shut the other out.
- He disliked the new ruling that contestants could only buzz in after Trebek finished reading the clue.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for buzz in. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA