silver alert
nounEtymology
Introduced in 2005 by Oklahoma state representative Fred Perry, modelled on amber alert. Silver suggests the grey hair of elderly people; compare silver fox.
Definitions
A public notification of a missing person, especially a senior with dementia.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for silver alert. 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